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FIXING BLOG THINGS AND COMPLAINING AT THE SAME TIME

December 24, 2022 by

Fixing blog things is part of joining the blogger world circus. I update boomerpdx and lose my subscribers? Twitter takes a dump and I lose my blog traffic? Facebook is unreliable? These are examples of fixing things online AND complaining. Waaaa. But, first . . .

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BROKEN MEN: IT HURTS WHEN I DO THIS

June 9, 2022 by

Memo to broken men who hurt themselves: Don’t do that. The remaining question remains. How do men break?

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ACCEPTABLE LOSSES? WHO DECIDES FOR BOOMERS

March 29, 2022 by

Acceptable losses are like minor surgery. There’s no such things as minor surgery, just minor surgeons. Or, it’s minor surgery if it’s someone else going under the knife. Losses are the same. The closer you are, the less acceptable the loss.

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THE COVID HALF MILLION HIT YESTERDAY, FEB 22

February 22, 2021 by

My phone laid on the table top near my screen. It lit up with “News Top Stories.” That top story is the covid half million dead. “The U.S. has surpassed 500,000 COVID-19 deaths. Here’s how to visualize the overwhelming loss.”

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ACCEPTABLE LOSSES? WHAT DOES ‘IT IS WHAT IT IS’ MEAN

August 6, 2020 by

The idea of acceptable losses takes a sharp turn on the anniversary of Hiroshima. The death count from 75 years back is a consistent 140,000 in one fell swoop, give or take a few thousand. Atomicarchive.com breaks it down. Counting war death from a distance of time leaves some leeway for acceptable losses?

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