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Consolidated Polling Increases The Cost of Voting in Person
It’s only about four and a half miles from downtown Trego to the Volunteer Fire Department for Fortine, which is where we used to go to vote. Going into Eureka (as per that letter we all received from the county) will increase the distance by about thirteen miles (according to google maps). The distance I…
The Most Serious Comorbidity
Driving home from the ophthalmologist, I had the radio on, and heard an announcement that the greatest comorbidity factor in covid was obesity. So I checked the net, and sure enough, I found that CDC announced: About 78% of people who have been hospitalized, needed a ventilator or died from Covid-19 have been overweight or…
Habits Have a Way of Becoming Habitual
I was 12 years old when I got glasses to correct my myopia – I needed them to see well at distance. Reading, not so much – and I held on until I was 50 before I had any use for bifocals. That’s a long time – and over time, when you do the same…
Gander Back With New Goose
For seven years, we have watched Goose and Gander nest on their island in the pond, and successfully raise a hatch of five to nine goslings each year. I gained a lot of respect for the Gander when two eagles flew over, and he took to the air to distract them from the nesting goose,…
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Boys and Girls
As I look at education, and demography, some things show clearly:
Where Does the Oil Come From?
I noticed a chart of the top ten oil producing countries ( https://blazingcatfur.ca/ ) It says a lot – first that the US is still the largest producer. Increasing the prices will make new wells more likely. Admitted, the current administration has made some reductions in areas to drill, but political administrations can change rapidly. …
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. -Benjamin Franklin
Losing Dreams
Don’t take this wrong – I’m old enough that I taught at TSJC when the only surgeon in the US performing transexual surgery was Stanley Biber at Mount San Rafael hospital – across the Purgatory and downstream a bit from the college. My colleague down the hall described the most horrifying part of a motorcycle…
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