Nothing much more to say today about our pandemic, I last week already reported on the slate of victories by Democrats, and the Ukraine War just drags on, so let me start by showing a graph from the  New York Times  this morning about murder rates in the USA. Seems that our national murder rate dropped from two decades ago, then picked up during the Trump administration, and is now declining again because of Joe Biden.  Well, the more cited reasons are a variety of repercussions from our pandemic.  There was also an uptick in the aftermath of George Floyd's murder in 2020.  Not shown above is the simple fact that between the 1990's and 2014, crime in the U.S. fell by more than 50%!!!    The latest  Gallup poll on crime  showed one graph and a variety of tables. I report on crime, for, combined with gun rights, these related issues will impact on the mid-term elections.  That landmark funding package also inserted something about checking methane emissions at facilities.  While