Utilities
I saw a headline from Barron’s that read “The L.A. Fires Have Edison Stock Plunging”….
Utilities
I saw a headline from Barron’s that read “The L.A. Fires Have Edison Stock Plunging”. I can’t link to it because it’s behind a paywall. But it got me thinking even though I couldn’t read the article. It’s really messed up that utilities have stock prices. Utilities are necessities in modern society. Traditionally, they are…
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Four Years Later – The Insurrection
It’s been four years since the infamous insurrection at the US Capitol Building. At the time, I wrote this: We Need More Tepid Takes – Nutmegger Daily. The gist of it is that everyone else was loudly proclaiming all kinds of theories as if they were absolute truth. Meanwhile, I had no idea what to…
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I Wrote a Book Last Year-Kinda
Last year was my first year working full-time as a writer. I worked freelance for CT News Junkie and for the New Haven Independent, so I did alot of writing. But how much is “alot”? Fortunately, I’ve had to maintain a spreadsheet of all the articles I wrote for News Junkie. According to that tally,…
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Birthright Citizenship
Donald Trump wants to end birthright citizenship. He first floated the idea while he was president in 2018. He thought he could do it through an executive order. He didn’t proceed with his plan then. But in 2024, he made ending birthright citizenship one of his campaign promises. He has said that his first day…
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A Look Back at 2024
2024 sucked. To paraphrase Homer Simpson in a different context, it was the suckiest bunch of suck that ever sucked. It both sucked and blew, which, as Bart Simpson pointed out, is hard to do. It started out with my mental health taking a nosedive to the point where I was having suicidal ideations. That…
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Since I Gave Up Soda
10ish years ago, I gave up soda. I had an absolutely disastrous annual physical that year. My bad cholesterol was high, my good cholesterol was low, my blood pressure was high, and my blood sugar was high. I was overweight. I hadn’t had a good night’s sleep in years. Between having a full-time job, a…
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Forever in Blue Jeans
There was a kerfuffle in the chess world this weekend. Chess Grandmaster Magnus Carlsen quit a tournament on Friday because the tournament officials tried to get him to change out of his jeans. He’ll be back in on Monday. The tournament decided to loosen their dress code to allow “appropriate jeans”. I find the whole…
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Homelessness
I read an article on NPR today, U.S. homelessness jumps to another record high, amid affordable housing shortage : NPR. Apparently, there were more than 770,000 homeless people in the US in January, when the survey was done. And that’s probably an undercount. More than three quarters of a million people are living in shelters…
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The Parker Solar Probe
The Parker Solar Probe survived its trip into the sun’s corona. That is so cool. You know what’s also cool? It is traveling at 430,000 miles per hour. It is officially the fastest human made thing ever built. The heat shield can apparently withstand up to 2,500 degrees (Fahrenheit of course) while keeping the insides…
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Why Is There a Word for That?
Defenestration means “the action of throwing someone out of a window”. Why do we need a word that means throwing someone out of a window? It seems weird to me. As someone who took Latin, the derivation is easy. It is “de” which means “out” and “fenestra” which means window. So, it’s a word meaning…
