Wednesday, March 31, 2021

Centralize Data--Yes or No

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 President Biden, through the press secretary, says no centralized database for vaccinations.  The General Accounting Office says we need ce...
Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Remembering or Failing To

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 New Yorker has an article on memory, partially geared to the idea that forgetting is part of having a healthy memory.  I think I have had ...
Monday, March 29, 2021

Free Trade and Religion

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 Noah Smith has a Substack thing, and i n this post argue s that experts, like public health people vis a vis masks and economists on free t...
Sunday, March 28, 2021

Trying to Define Hemp

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 It seems there's another problem in defining hemp--we know it can't have a lot of THC, but now there's a "isomer" cal...
Saturday, March 27, 2021

Pandemic Data Problems

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 I've posted a time or two on the need for the federal government to improve its statistical/data collection processes.   Here's a ...
Friday, March 26, 2021

Spring Is Here

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Got into the low 80's in Reston today, with lots of wind.  But the daffodils are blooming, some trees are blossoming, the cherry blossom...
Thursday, March 25, 2021

Republicans--Original Practitioners of Identity Politics?

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 Current reading in David Reynolds' "Abe" showed me this cartoon attacking Lincoln and the Republican party.  If the captions ...
Wednesday, March 24, 2021

More USDA Programs

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Secretary Vilsack announced new programs  and more money for existing ones.  I didn't see any more money for FSA administration but I j...

Lincoln's Shoemaker Was Lynched

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  Reading David Reynolds' "Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times ". Some Springfield, IL blacks did well, including Lincoln's ...
Tuesday, March 23, 2021

Court Decision on Organic/Hydroponics

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 Judge has ruled USDA can include hydroponics in the "organic" category. Followers of Rodale, like my late mother, will not be ha...