During my four years at Stanford from 1958-62, we were the league doormats for football and basketball.  When Cactus Jack Curtice, our football coach, addressed our freshman class on Day One, his story was that he scoured the country,  successfully recruited every player that qualified to attend Stanford...and   both   of them should be sitting with you in the audience.  Our baseball team was okay, and I actually earned an athletic jacket for my experience with the team.   One requirement for graduation was to perform a quarter of school service, and I picked helping out our baseball team.  This was all menial, like putting up the bases during their practices and the like.  One day their scorer was sick, so I volunteered to do that.  We won.  So I did it again, We won again.   You need to appreciate how baseball works.  The coaches and players are notoriously superstitious, and their success just by my keeping score meant that they took me to away games.  We did well, and they voted to

WHOOPS...SORRY, FORGET TO CLICK ON THE BUTTON TO POST MY BLOG YESTERDAY.  CLICK ON       RISE OF VACCINE MANDATES to read that article. ********************************************* I was sent this video on the French Peugeot e-Legend electric concept car, which was introduced in 2018 for a company then celebrating half a century of existence: Of course, concept cars are just that, they represent the future, many times unrealistically.  In 2019 Peugot announced that they would not mass produce this vehicle because the assembly line start-up would cost $300 million, and they would need to sell the car at $95,000, even if they rolled-off 20,000 cars. France has never been a player in world car sales, and, come to think of it, I don't think I've ever been in one.  The most prominent companies are Citroen ( and this is one of their concept cars....from 1955 ), which sold their first vehicle 102 years ago in 1919.  They have had a checkered existence, once owning Maserati, with take

              From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732         1185       246       82 July    22     1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25      2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30      3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142    15512         1151        189       712                  Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398           25       2414    10578        1582        119      144 Mar     2        1989      9490       1726       110      194           31       1115      12301        3950       458       58 April   6         906     11787         4211        631       37 May    4         853     13667         3

              From  Worldometer  (new  COVID-19 deaths yesterday):          DAY    USA    WORLD     Brazil      India      South Africa June     9    1093     4732         1185       246       82 July    22     1205     7128         1293      1120     572 Aug    12     1504     6556        1242        835     130 Sept     9     1208      6222       1136       1168       82 Oct     21     1225      6849         571        703       85 Nov    25      2304    12025        620        518      118 Dec     30      3880    14748       1224       299      465 Jan      14       4142    15512         1151        189       712                  Feb      3       4005    14265       1209       107      398           25       2414    10578        1582        119      144 Mar     2        1989      9490       1726       110      194           31       1115      12301        3950       458       58 April   6         906     11787         4211        631       37 May    4         853     13667         3