Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

One can only hope. Matt Taibbi delivers quite the preliminary obituary. Actually a ringing, rollicking prose poem in praise of the idea, in the new Rolling Stone. The thing I worry about here, is the inevitable zombie remains. They will continue to shamble around the country for decades,…

WordPress says that the Helsinki Burger King Sauna post was my 499th. But when I migrated here from BlogSpot, I managed to lose the post I'd made on 2015-03-27. I know I made it because its share on G+ is still there, although the link…

CNN wants us all to be envious that you can go to a BK in Helsinki and take a sauna as a part of having it your way. Why does this happen in Finland, while in the US we have to worry about a Trump presidency for another…

For a lot of bad but strong reasons, the American way of life is ruled by the private automobile. The average cost (TCO) of a passenger sedan is over $17 per hour it is used. That's cheaper than if we took taxis everywhere -- although not by…

Social shaming should by now be swinging the vax/anti-vax fray in the right direction. But just in case it's not, here's a fun explanation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfdZTZQvuCo