Florida’s population is growing and younger people have been moving into Florida, partially due tothe state’s #1 ranking for education in U.S. Newsbut mostly due to the efforts of lockdown governors in the Northeast, Illinois, and California. Florida has about half as many children as Cal...
impoverishing American citizens and controlling the horizontal and the vertical. But if you’re really concerned that we just don’t have the funds for pediatric cancer research, SNAP benefits, the postal service, TSA agents, clean water projects and the department of education, there *is* someth...
A couple of weeks ago I was heading into NYC from north central New Jersey. I put my NYC address in my GPS. It decided to send me via the George Washington Bridge after first indicating the Holland Tunnel. I complied with the instructions, figuring there must be some sort of traffic sna...
I don’t live in Florida right now, but I grew up there, my father grew up there, my grandfather grew up there, and my great-grandfather stumbled into growing citrus there. I still have plenty of family there, and we visit often. It pains me to see people Wrong On The Internet. ...
I’m so grateful to EXCEL for giving me the opportunity to work on the EXCEL Log, and even though my time on the Log has come to an end, I’ll still be keeping up with all of EXCEL’s events programs and resources, and you definitely should too! Thanks for tuning into the EXCEL...
If anyone expresses support for low-skill migration into the U.S., one of my standard tropes is to offer to pay for a year of food for any migrants that the gracious welcomer wants to shelter in his/her/zir/their own home. After 20 years of making these offers, I have not had to...
Kalashnikov rifle variants, it is a rotating bolt, gas-operated gun that feeds from a boxmagazine. This means you can carry a lot more ammunition with you, in easy to transport and store box magazines. Reloading is a snap as well, since there is no need to feed rounds into a tube ...
Later, I moved into Vulpecula and Cygnus after brewing up a cup of espresso. The rest of the night was taking NVD pics. With my simple phone pics, grabbing the image is easy and at least I get the chance to observe while the camera is off the NVD. ...
Currently I have lost my job – and my black neighbors have said were I to lose my home they would gladly take me in. And I feel strongly the same way about them. I can imagine in history a time of “reverse hatred” having a mob break into my house dragging me out to be burned...
The last four weeks were a blur of activity where I collapsed into sleep everyday. Now, I think, I’m trying to slow it down into one day at a time. Just one day at a time. We’ll see how that goes. Right now I’m missing my usual social calendar, the tight circles of friend...