Monday, October 5, 2026
President Trump continues to promise every adult citizen in the United States $5,000 if Republican control of the House and Senate survives the mid-term elections.
Gad Zoox! Is this the future of driverless cars?
Screenshot from the Zoox.com website.
Thursday, October 1, 2026
What you’re looking at is a Zoox robotaxi. If you ask the Internet for a list of the best driverless cabs, Zoox is on the top, Google’s Waymo is in second place. The Zoox was designed to be a robotaxi from the ground up. The Waymo’s are modified Jaguars.
Interest rates. The Fed’s primitive means of fighting inflation.
Thursday, September 24, 2026
The featured image to the left is a very rough caricature of Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh, ready to fight inflation. The actual Kevin Warsh is much better looking and far more astute. I picked the caveman to symbolize the coarse nature of the Fed’s economic policy that lacks the very specific finesse and authority required for its monetary policy to be effective – assuming that fighting inflation is really something we want the Fed to be doing.
“Chuckles.” The counterargument in favor of regulated “surveillance pricing.”
Image is from a product page on Amazon.com.
Saturday, September 19, 2026
The terminology, “surveillance pricing,” makes it sound as if someone, the seller, is spying on you. It’s an assumption that many people are making as if that’s what’s actually happening. I don’t think so, by which I mean to say that I don’t think their concerns are warranted. Here’s why…
AI is the nuclear weapon of our time, but something doesn’t smell right about the state of play.
Monday, September 14, 2026
We don’t talk about nuclear weapons a lot lately, except maybe with respect to Iran. Hard to believe that there was time, during the “cold war” in the 1950s and 60s in particular, when the fear of their use was so great that people were building bomb shelters and public schools held nuclear attack drills. Kids were told to take cover under their desks or below their classroom windows so that flying glass would go over them, instead of at them, when the shockwaves from strikes miles away hit their building. As if hiding under their desks could keep them safe from the vaporizing force of nuclear explosions and radiation.
Republicans. Nothing to sell.
Tuesday, September 8, 2026
As Republicans are in the process of learning, the hard way, elections, without having any programs to improve the quality of their constituents’ lives, are all about character. The result is, without substantive government they can brag about, they have nothing to sell. Nothing except who they are.
The Worthless 25th Amendment
LinkedIn on Saturday, September 5, 2026
The 25th Amendment was certified, after having been ratified by 38 states, in February of 1967. Our founding fathers had nothing to do with it. Until the 25th Amendment, impeachment was the Constitution’s only tool for removing a President.
Most people I know think that the 25th Amendment is how, other than by impeachment, the Constitution allows senior officials in a given Administration – or others “as Congress may by law provide” – to remove the sitting President who is unable to do his or her job. That’s not entirely true. According to Section 4 of the Amendment…
Criminal Conspiracy
LinkedIn on Friday, September 4, 2026
If you watch too much news – and find your head spinning between stories of authoritarian disregard for the Constitution and rule of law, expensive Presidential vanity projects, “grand theft government” as I like to call the grift Trump is running, awful economic and foreign policy, etc. – you may be asking yourself, “What the hell is going on?!” Yeah. Me too.
So, you think America is in a world of trouble? We’re not even talking, let alone thinking about the greatest threat to our way of life.
LinkedIn on Thursday, August 27, 2026
$40 trillion and counting?! Costing us $1 trillion per year, approximately $3000 per person, $12,000 per family of four – just to pay the interest on our national debt.
Forget about Donald Trump and the likes of Stephen Miller. These people are fast on their way to being barely memorable footnotes in the history of our country. If anything ever takes America down, it will the gross financial irresponsibility with which we’ve managed our national debt.
Zero integrity. Stupid economic policy.
LinkedIn on Monday, August 24, 2026
Zero integrity. Stupid economic policy. No understanding of the advantages of competitive markets. He couldn’t care less.
On July 29 of this year, the Trump Administration announced a ban on the importing of humanoid robots.
“Why?” you ask.
Well, do you know what U.S. company is the current leader in the development and manufacture of humanoid robots? With plans to ramp up production and sale of its Optimus robots to one million units per year at $20,000 per unit?
Well, Tesla of course, a/k/a Elon Musk whose money helped re-elect Trump President.
Don’t buy anything Musk makes. Remind them both that the people are still in charge.
-Les Cohen
Imagine a time when no politician could lie.
LinkedIn on Monday, August 24, 2026
I’ve just completed the process of migrating my small company’s domains and WordPress.org websites from one to another hosting service. The new hosting service is substantially less expensive, no doubt because it uses a very sophisticated AI entity to provide customer service, to help layman like me do technical stuff. My old hosting service is, on the other hand, human customer service-intensive and much more expensive for that reason.
AI. Exceptionally clever programming – or the next dominant species?
LinkedIn on Wednesday, August 19, 2026
The screenshot above is from the end of a chat with the tech support AI who was helping migrate some websites to its hosting service.
I’m having a sci-fi moment.
I’m a small business. Even so, I have three WordPress websites that I’m in the process of updating and moving from one hosting service to another that is much, much less expensive than the service I have been using. One site describes the writing and editing services I offer to political and corporate clients. Another contains samples of my professional work. And a third site describes the fiction I write and hope to sell some day.