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[OPINION and ANALYSIS] According to “FRED” , the acronym for Federal Reserve Economic Data, the Federal Reserve Bank’s on-line data source, and keeper of important economic statistics, the amount of total federal debt as a percentage of GDP (gross domestic product) of the United States has actually decreased since the last year of Donald Trump’s Read More …
[Analysis and Opinion.] We’ve previously written about the ease with which pictures and videos can be “doctored”. . See our post of October 27, 2021. Now we have ChatGPT which can sound and write like a human. To add to all of this their thieves, malcontents and even foreign actors of all descriptions writing, posting Read More …
[ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN] [Unless otherwise noted, nothing on our site is or was written or knowingly influenced by any artificially intelligent software. It’s just we humans writing this stuff. Imagine, a few of us still do that!] NOTES Lest there be any doubt please know that we assume that most of Read More …
[OPINION, ANALYSIS and FUN.] NOTES Aside from perhaps the war in Ukraine and the classified document issues facing Trump, Biden and Pence etc., the biggest thing in the news is probably the artificial intelligence program ChatGPT which is now being made widely available to the general public. ChatGPT is, of course, can do Read More …
[ANALYSIS, OPINION & FUN] NOTES: The biggest news recently is the discovery of classified documents at President Biden’s residence and at one of his old offices. Apparently the documents date back to the days of the Obama administration when Biden was Vice President. Former President Trump jumped on this development to demand an Read More …
ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN NOTES As this is being written, Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy, after 14 unsuccessful attempts, finally hit the jackpot on his 15th try and was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives. Up to that point, about 15 to 20 recalcitrant and very conservative (if that’s the right word for them) Read More …
ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN We hope everyone’s 2022 was prosperous and happy. In no particular order here’s how we size up 2022. This may surprise some but first we will mention ChatGPT. In what to us is the perhaps the scariest story we’ve heard in a long time, a college philosophy professor in the Carolinas Read More …
Pictured is a meal that we’ve enjoyed at least once a day for almost the last 6 months. During that time we’ve lost 34 pounds and our running has increased from about 9 miles per week to 25 miles per week. We are not sure but perhaps we are training for a marathon in May. Read More …
[ANALYSIS, OPINION and FUN] Notes: CBS News has reported that .1. The U.S. Department of Energy announced Tuesday a monumental milestone in nuclear fusion research: a “net energy gain” was achieved for the first time in history by scientists from the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. In other words, total input to make Read More …
OPINION ANALYSIS and FUN: 12/07/22 TOP NEWS STORIES Several news sources have reported that Democrat Raphael Warnock has defeated Republican Herschel Walker for a Senate seat in Georgia. This means that Democrats will have a clear majority in the Senate and theoretically will not have to rely on tie breaking votes of Vice Read More …