Another indignity of old age is the disintegration of critical skills, particularly when it comes to humor. In between our yearly get togethers, the 12 of us stay in touch by email, exchanging what is commonly known as old man humor.
These are actual examples:
Business Lessons From an MIT Mathematician Gian-Carlo Rota was mathematician, teacher, and philosopher who spent most of his career at MIT, teaching functional analysis, probability theory, phenomenology, and…
Walking It Back… Walking It Back… Walking It Back DF sent in this article from The Atlantic, titled “Why Are We Still Arguing About Masks?” It fits neatly with what I’ve been calling the “walking-back”…
One of the claims made against COVID vaccination is that it can cause a variety of mild to deadly brain problems. I’ve already suffered three of the possible side effects. I had an ischemic stroke, an optic…
The first important skill I studied when I began my career in publishing was how to write a sales letter. Back then – in the early ‘80s – there weren’t any expert teachers available. (Today, there are hundreds…
Do We Need Stop-and-ID Laws? Stop-and-frisk was a policy that was ruled legal in 1968. In Terry vs. Ohio, the Supreme Court ruled to allow police officers the flexibility to temporarily detain and search…