Should we all be “preppers”?
Preppers is the term given to those who plan for disasters – for some, like us, this means the ordinary situation like power outages, while for others, it is preparing…
Practice Factfulness
Practice factfulness and learn to think for yourself. If you do not practice factfulness, then you are being manipulated to believe things that are not true. And you have no…
Fact checking a fact check: “protected bicycle lanes make streets safer for cyclists”
There are nearly a thousand bike related fatalities per year. Most fatal accidents involve a vehicle. Thus, separating bikes in physically separated bike path will likely reduce fatal accidents. Source:…
Out sick – continued
Still out sick: Out sick – Coldstreams Skeptic Yesterday started out much better but late in the afternoon my fever shot up to 102.5, dropped to 101 by 1 am,…
Memory issues on the blog
I have several blogs running on a shared web server host. For several months, they have been offline 1-3% of the time – which is terrible uptime performance. Yesterday, the…