If you're not thinking, you're not moving forward!

Another Desantis non-scandal, 2021 Stock Market returns, stats on Omicron in South Africa, Covid tests, Biden Admin plans for the meat packing industry, and commentary about how to prep for disaster and how to work with your home/renter's insurance company.

Monday Musings: Marshall Fire is almost contained, More fentanyl than heroin intercepted at US border, Omicron cases increase, AOV vacations in Florida, Turkey Energy Agency increases prices 125%, Twitter suspends a couple of high profile personnel

Where did the media lose our trust (ie, Covid) and a young progressive begins to question everything she's believed

Another exciting episode of "Why doesn't the public trust the 'experts?'

Glenn Greenwald: The script, Radical Reversal in How Public Health Experts now speak about the Coronavirus And Mass Gatherings (partial reading)

Obesity, diabetes top the list of covid comorbodities, Cuba joins China's Belt and Road Energy Partnership

Thursday Thoughts: plans for the new year... (reading goals, topics, and a bit more)

Tuesday Thoughts: Biden Administration "gives up" on Covid as it is revealed it rejected plan to produce test kits two months ago, Lakewood, Colorado shooting, "Karen" is arrested by FBI after flight, men accused of Whitmer kidnapping plot demand that charges are dropped.

A reading from the Daily Caller, and how green technology is connected with slavery -- for adults and children.

Secret Service says $100 Billion of pandemic aid was stolen, Biden Admin may extend student loan payment pause, 500 million vivid testing kits may be made available to Americans, Maxine Waters makes on United Airlines flight, Waukesha residents push Governor to fire local DA

When are we going to realize that the Government isn't going to "save" us? (Commentary/Rant)

Joy Reid says "Karen" is Black vernacular, Manchin destroys democracy (not really), Fentanyl is the leading cause of death for people 18 - 45, who is to blame for senators being infected by covid, Turkish YouTubers arrested by government for found their jobs, CNN's John Griffin arrested by the FBI, update on Rogel Aguilera- Medros' 110 year sentence

Black Juror in Smollett case states why he voted to convict, House votes to ban imports from Xingjiang province, Is the Fed too late to fight inflation? Musk and Warren "talk" about taxes, SF mayor says we need "aggressive policing"

I'm seeing them again: the ads about Gold. But... Should you buy it?

Biden speechwriters go off the rails and predict that everyone who doesn't do what they will die, Senators Warren and Booker test positive for covid, Joe Manchin sinks Build Back Better

What will 2022 look like? What steps will I be taking to improve myself?

Governor Polis says the pandemic is over, Kentucky and other states hit by multiple tornadoes, Minneapolis suburbs see crime come to their towns, the "free" Build Back Better could cost $4.6 trillion, Chicago sues Smollett

Inflation, Savings, Businesses, and Investing: What is a person to do to keep rising prices from stealing her money?

How often do we blame ourselves for things that aren't our fault? How often do we punish ourselves?

Did Don Lemon obstructed The Smollett investigation? Oregon kindergarten class eats outside because safety, Russia postures against Ukraine, only 18% of American households have parents who are married, Germany's new Chancellor is wasting no time "protecting" the country

I'll discuss crypto, possible pros, cons, and other random thoughts like, "Should I get involved with it?"

Inflation is not transitory after all, Chris Cuomo fired by CNN, November jobs report worse than expected, China building a military base in the Atlantic.

A trip down memory lane -- The 2008 Great Recession

Where did Omicron come from?-- it may not have been South Africa, Chris Cuomo on indefinite suspension, Dow falls 650 over inflation fears, Jack Dorsey steps down as CEO of Twitter, And Fentanyl...the *other* epidemic