The Digital Dollar Is Getting Nearer

The federal government’s plans to replace the paper dollar with a digital one continues apace. Recently, Biden and his appointees have been talking up the CBDC (central bank digital currency).

As I predicted, they are touting it as something that will reduce crime, reduce tax cheating, and make business transactions safer and easier. But some states, like Florida, are pushing back. Click here for Ron DeSantis, in Taki’s Magazine, talking about Florida’s new legislation to preserve the paper dollar.

Bad Science 

Don’t spend too much time reading this. I’m recommending it as an example of how easy it is for scientists, presumably well-intentioned scientists, to screw up “scientific” studies.

We have to be very careful about taking any scientific “fact” derived from a single test or study as gospel. In fact, we would be wiser to assume the conclusion is invalid until we’ve looked at a half-dozen related studies with differing conclusions.

Click here.

Don’t You Touch My Cell Phone! 

I don’t know if this is an official “thing” yet, but reports are surfacing about young people getting very upset when they are told to desist from using their iPhones. Some have suggested it’s a post-lockdown effect of spending two years with phones 24/7. Others are arguing that it’s bad parenting.

Here’s one example.

“I Want You to Call Me Loretta!” 

Fifty years ago, I saw this Monty Python skit and thought it was hysterical and absurd.

It’s still very funny, but not quite so absurd. Click here.