Phone rang at 6:37 AM. My consigliere was on the horn. He got up early to run the numbers: “Latest rate-of-rise calculations I’ve run for the Oroville dam is that it is likely pass capacity before dinnertime tonight in California. 12 to 14 hours from now. Looks like the emergency spillway will be eaten-back, too…because … Read More

Tired of “snowpocalyse” and other (hopelessly trite) MSM nonsense?  Yup, me too.  So let’s talk about something important:  coffee… Been doing some experimenting with making coffee here lately. The reason is fairly simple: I’ve never had coffee as good as what I get in Seattle. Maybe it’s the water up there, or when my Mom … Read More

To define terms: “lacking imagination, foresight, or intellectual insight.” Example 1: Drudge Report this morning leads with “Snowblast Set for Northeast.” We have been over this before, my friend. It’s winter. What does it do in the winter, do you suppose? Example 2: For the past two days the “story” about “How Coretta Scott King … Read More

(simple title art) Reader Note: If you are just catching on, each Thursday we’re are doing a chapter each week of a book I’m writing for Millennials – teaching the insights that will (hopefully!) allow them to live long and prosper – and be around to clean up after us Old People who made a … Read More

Just in is an urgent memo from my consigliere about the Oroville Dam situation in California: “Oroville Dam, California (highest dam in the United States holding back the 2nd largest lake in California) Major damage to the Spillway problem Spillway damage: per news conference last night it is 180′ wide by 230′ long. other reports … Read More

We approach a very difficult problem this morning:  Mental Health of America. Based on the outbreaks of “fake news” and “competing facts,” and other such MSM drivel, we sit back with some psychological glasses on, come up with metrics of “what makes crazy” and put up some data. I think you’ll find the answer sadly … Read More

Let’s jump right into “how to read the news.” We can begin with any news story you please. A good one this morning is yet-another Trump-bash: “Experts: Trump Undermines Judiciary With Twitter Attack on Judge Robart.” We can approach this in several ways. Most people, when they read the news will simply take it at … Read More

There was a murmur of shock yesterday when I hinted that Elaine and I might actually sell the homestead here and look for something in a small to medium-sized town for the next chapter of life. A reader we’ll call Jonesy offered this: “So the gloom and doom self reliance model you have been preaching … Read More

Home Edition Sometimes, in order to understand terrible confusing political or business situations, the best and easiest tool at hand is a cocktail napkin. For those of don’t go our cocktailing and choose to have a libation at home, napkins are in short supply. So we revert to software for our purpose of sketching out … Read More

You may notice columns will become a bit shorter some of these mornings. Ure pal is going through a period this spring of “too many projects, not enough George.” A couple of them I have told you about before. After almost 6-years of owning our own airplane, it is time to left that pass behind … Read More

Ouch!  Not a very comfortable topic today.  But an important one to consider going forward. It began as a simple discussion of how America needs to begin coming up with new – and more effective – ways to fight militant Islamic jihadists.  But in the process, turns out that in addition to having a terrible … Read More

Disco? Yeah, like ADP Jobs this week (dis-go up), Challenger job cuts (dis goes up, too) and now we have Emp-Sit. And “dis-goes” where? Press release, please: “Both the number of unemployed persons, at 7.6 million, and the unemployment rate, at 4.8 percent, were little changed in January. (See table A-1. For information about annual … Read More

I slept extra-well last night, knowing I have not failed as a parent. It was a conversation with my son G2 Thursday that cinched it: As you may know he works as an infectious disease investigator in high risk communities (LBGT), is happily straight and dating as time permits, thinking for himself, and constantly challenging … Read More