Author: Richard Nestoff (Page 3 of 70)

Arctic Analysis

March 2, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

I am always going to click on an article that sounds like the name of a Tom Clancy novel. This article opens with a photo of a submarine conning tower jutting through the ice. There are a few other nice photos and what seems to be a deep analysis of the geopolitics of the Arctic.

I don’t know anything about the organization, IM, that posted the article, but it seems balanced and informative. I only read a bit of it, was in over my head, and Sparky wants to go outside.

Let me know if it’s worth reading.

Ultra-processed foods can’t be trusted.

March 2, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Ultra-processed foods and cardio-metabolic health

We are doing terribly. Ultra-processed foods make up 58% of the average American’s diet.

David Johansen and Buster Poindexter are dead at 75.

March 1, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

New York Dolls frontman David Johansen dead at 75

Well, that’s a shame. I was never hip enough to know about the New York Dolls or to follow David Johansen, but was fond of his alter ego, Buster Poindexter.

Women don’t need no man to go into space.

March 1, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Historic all-woman space flight to include Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez

This sexist article is so patronizing.

Blue Origin says its next spaceflight is set to make history.

With celebrities such as Katy Perry, Lauren Sánchez and Gayle King on board, the all-woman crew will fly into space when the New Shepard spacecraft launches from the West Texas desert this spring. The company says it’s the first all-woman flight since the Soviet Union’s Valentina Tereshkova’s solo spaceflight in 1963.

Foreign trade by state.

February 28, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

With foreign trade and tariffs in the news, that map of Top Import Partner of Every U.S. State is a little bit interesting.

Sparky’s belated Valentine’s Day message.

February 27, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

Sparky had some drama on Valentine’s Day, but he and Skunk have patched things up or come to an arrangement. I don’t know, I wasn’t really listening because Skunk is just a plushie from Tractor Supply.

Everyone is being manipulated.

February 27, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

The Manipulation Machine

We are being manipulated. We have always been manipulated, but in the past decade or so, it’s been more obvious. How does something like the George Floyd case get world-wide attention? Yeah, the incident is terrible, but in a country of 350 million people, all sorts of things happen all the time.

Lamentations of their women.

February 26, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

NYT: Trump’s New Deputy F.B.I. Director Has It Out for the ‘Commie Libs’

Michelle Goldberg, the author of this opinion piece, doesn’t understand how much we enjoy this article. It reminds me of that famous dialogue from the movie, Conan the Barbarian.

Mongol General: Wrong! Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women.
Mongol General: That is good! That is good.

Michelle’s column is all lamentations, and it is good.

Sparky worked so hard to get the backyard just right.

February 25, 2025 / Richard Nestoff / 0 Comments

We are getting the first complete snow melt-off in almost two months. Sparky is wondering why I’m scooping up all his poop, and tossing it into the woods. Sparky isn’t disappointed in me, but he is wondering why I bother.

Home ownership is a struggle.