By now virtually everybody has heard about George Santos (NY-R) and his Walter Mitty life. However, this is not all a new story. An article about Mr. Santos appeared in the Daily Beast, by William Bredderman, on April 3, 2022. (It would have been more interesting had the article appeared on April Fools Day).Among other […]
January 26, 2023
An article about Franz Kafka in Psychology Today, (2011), reveals the following tidbit about the novelist of the absurd, Franz Kafka: Researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara and the University of British Columbia, found that loyal readers of the works of Kafka gain an enhanced cognitive ability to learn novel tasks. Of […]
January 26, 2023
Former Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was interviewed by CNN in the aftermath of the marathon vote for the new House Speaker, Kevin McCarthy. She described that event, where Republicans fought Republicans for a few days as “sad”. When asked if she had ever experienced something of that nature, Rep. Pelosi answered in the […]
January 9, 2023
Leo Sands of the Washington Post recently wrote an article about the mediation role on the farm, of pigs! (You can’t make this stuff up!). Research seems to show that pigs are smart enough to detect when conflict arises on the farm. They are also empathetic enough to try to mediate the dispute. When a […]
January 5, 2023
The media is filled with opinions about why the “Red Wave” of the last election never arrived. Was it the former President? Poor candidate options? Abortion concerns? We likely will never know. That which often seems so inevitable is not always the outcome life has picked out. It is hard to live with uncertainty, but […]
January 5, 2023
The Boston Globe recently recently penned an article about possibilities for (Republican) Speaker of the House, if Rep. Kevin McCarthy could not make the final cut. One name that has gotten visibility in recently days is that of Patrick McHenry of North Carolina. The article commented about two items of note: Rep. McHenry wears bowties […]
January 26, 2023
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