ON AUTOMOTIVE PRICES (AND, ALAS, LOAN DELINQUENCIES)—PITY GEN Z
A RECENT AUTOMOTIVE NEWS ARTICLE by Paige Hodder describes, “Gen Z Car Buyers Use Research, Digital Tools to Make F&I Deals,” December 1, 2025. (F&I, by the way, is auto … Continue reading
A NEW INAMORATA PART 2
YESTERDAY WE BEGAN MY APPRECIATION of Margaret Atwood, her memoir Book of Lives, and its two articles in The New York Times “100 Notable Books of 2025.” Today in Part … Continue reading
A NEW INAMORATA PART 1
AT MY AGE? NO MATTER, BECAUSE SHE’S 85. And my infatuation is an intellectual one, based upon my reading about Margaret Atwood in several articles in “100 Notable Books of … Continue reading
AND NOW FONTGATE!?!
WHAT WITH TRUMP SEEMINGLY COMMITTING WAR CRIMES in the Caribbean, Putin elbowing his way into Western Europe, unease still exising in Gaza and the West Bank, not to say health … Continue reading
CHERNOBYL MOULD MAY THRIVE ON RADIATION
THE HORRIFIC DISASTER OF CHERNOBYL may have a beneficial mouldy lining—thanks to the relatively recent discovery of radiotrophism. Just as plants thrive from the sun through photosynthesis, some moulds have … Continue reading
TRUMP THE RACIST?
WHO ELSE BUT A RACIST WOULD remove Juneteenth and Martin Luther King’s birthday from previously free days of admittance to National Parks?? What else but an ideologically perverse Interior Department … Continue reading
HURRAH FOR HAPPINESS! THANKS, MERRIAM-WEBSTER
IT COMES AS NO SURPRISE that MERRIAM-WEBSTER has “Ten Kinds of Happiness.” Here, arranged alphabetically, are tidbits gleaned from several of M-W’s “Joyful words from around the world,” together with … Continue reading
QUICK ’N’ EASY STIR FRY
STIR FRY IS CULINARILY SATISFYING, being as it is highly participatory: Cut some stuff up, have saucing handy, heat the oil (don’t forget the garlic), and stir until tasty and … Continue reading
OUT OF AFRICA, KITTY-STYLE PART 2
Yesterday we began tidbits gleaned from Jonathan B. Losos’ “The Cat Diaspora Out Of Africa” and “The Dispersal of Domestic Cats from North Africa to Europe around 2000 Years Ago,” by … Continue reading
OUT OF AFRICA, KITTY-STYLE PART 1
AAAS SCIENCE, NOVEMBER 2025, DISPLAYS A FASCINATING cover blurb belying that our cat pals—as you might guess—got here in their own good time. Here in Parts 1 and 2 today … Continue reading
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