For fans of this blog site, here is the latest summary ( number of viewing people ): All Time   3,811,201 viewers Today   6,305  Yesterday   5,680  This Month   103,335 Last Month  86,155 # of postings:  6,745 Views/day in the lifetime of this blog site:  565 221 countries have visited this site. The top three countries this month: 1. United State        242,146 2. Singapore             77,436 3. United Kingdom   19,619 I've never been able to explain this, but the viewership from Singapore is usually off the charts.  Perhaps someone from Singapore can contact me to explain why.  I will be there from December 23 until December 30, when we depart on the Ritz-Carlton Yacht Luminara for Hong Kong.   Well, now on to the topic of today.  Many of us, especially me, are getting too old.  One indicator of aging is your choice of music. ...

I've been featuring Elon Musk the past couple of days, and start off with him again because this was his   farewell moment in the Oval Office with President Donald Trump   this morning.  He is wearing a black Make American Great Again cap.  Earlier today, the  New York Times  reported: As Elon Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, he told people he was taking so much ketamine that it was affecting his bladder. He was also taking Ecstasy and psychedelic mushrooms, and he traveled with a daily medication box of about 20 pills .   At the same time, he faced an increasingly turbulent family life. If you're barred from reading the NYT, try the  Guardian  version.  This newspaper indicated: Popular podcaster and public intellectual Sam Harris, who publicly ended his friendship with Musk,   wrote in a January   newsletter: “There is something seriously wrong with his moral compass, if not his perception of reality.”   F...

During the pandemic, Thursday was my day for COVID-19.  Looks like there is a new variant that could become serious, so I return today for an update.  But first, yesterday I ended with input from Elon Musk.  Today I will start with him.  From the  New York Time s: Elon Musk is leaving Washington . In a post on X last night, he confirmed for the first time what has become increasingly clear for weeks — that his work with the Trump administration and DOGE is coming to an end. He thanked Trump “for the opportunity to reduce wasteful spending. ”   One more matter dealing with politics.  The  New York Times  this morning also showed the following graphic, which is startling: Trump won because many counties shifted from Democratic to Republican.  Ironically, Democrats improved in mostly richer counties.  What has happened is that Republicans are now making gains in working-class areas.  Wonder what will happen in November 2026 when t...

The  New York Times  yesterday showed the following. It was 14 years ago when I published in the  Huffington Post :   THE SIMPLEST SOLUTION FOR OUR NATIONAL DEBT... And I said, this simplest solution was to INCREASE it. Note, find 2014 on the above graph, and when you do, our national debt seems to be on an exponential rise, and projected to zoom up even faster if the Trump Beautiful Bill passes. Does it really matter? Maybe not. In my article, I intimated that most of you ( the readers ) equate our national debt to your personal debt.  We all want to minimize what we owe. Further, to quote from that article. You feel that our government has irresponsibly built up a $14.3 trillion burden and can't any more tolerate this travesty, for just the interest in this loan is crippling our economy. Wrong! Or, at least, suboptimal . 14 years ago, our national debt was $14.3 trillion.  Now?  $36.2 trillion. How has the USA done financially? By any measure of...