They call it a chilling effect. That’s the terminology in constitutional law. What influence, what change in behavior will the statute or decision have. AWS was the pioneer in cloud computing, and is still the market leader. Yet under Trump, the government contract was given to Microsoft. Bezos does not want to let that happen […]

Okay, it’s all right for America to invade Iraq on false pretenses and kill up to a million people, but when Israel responds to an attack and there are tens of thousands of collateral deaths they’re a pariah. Actually, how many people really died? Well, you can go to the Wikipedia page “Casualties of the […]

The last month has defined the issues. The “Washington Post” has been doing incredible work. The paper may not be profitable, but it’s definitely worth reading. Yesterday there was this story: “Hamas built an underground war machine to ensure its own survival – Vowing self-sufficiency, Hamas turned a maze of tunnels in Gaza into weapons […]

“You know those lights were bright on Broadway That was so many years ago Before we all lived here in Florida…” “Miami 2017” Billy Joel Hasn’t Billy moved to Florida, and Howard Stern for a lot of the time too? Actually, I first heard this song in 1981, as the opener of Billy’s “Songs in […]