The New York Times has recently been talking a lot about the Singapore health system. Most recently here. However, in all the discussion about the amazing cost/benefit of the Singaporean system what’s lost is any consideration of a major Singaporean health initiative. Singapore’s “individual mandate,” if you will, is the enforced physical fitness of roughly 40% of […]
I recently listened to the Strong Towns podcast with Chuck Marohn and Scott Beyer (https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/8/30/podcast-a-conversation-about-market-urbanism) two of the most influential urban policy advocates/bloggers. In it, the principals “take on a contentious conversation about government regulations, zoning and housing—and how incremental development may or may not work in American cities.” I was struck that each takes a […]
My wife and I are always looking for fun and creative new weekend date ideas in New York City. A few years ago, my wife came up with the idea of planning our very own “food crawl” as a way to spend our annual “Christmas City Date Day.” Our tour took us to 4 different bakeries […]
The Republican Party is making this country more ignorant, bigoted, and intolerant every day. Their adamant refusal to compromise, their denial of evidence regarding our climate, and their blatant pandering to the evangelicals is hurting our country. Our political system hit a nadir last week when, during a nationally televised debate, GOP frontrunner Donald Trump bragged […]
Wait, are you serious right now? Some hackers were about to steal $1,000,000,000??? Can we stop for a second and think about how insanely outrageous that is. Look how many 0’s that has. Technology is crazy. Granted, these guys’ (or person’s) spelling error only allowed them to rob $80 million, that’s still a […]
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“You’re Next,” what a film.
Rate it: 60% Well, talk about hilarity. If you like SyFy movies and B horror movies which are in their own respect “good,” you may enjoy parts of this. The ending is where they seem to have just completely given up. It seems the script style is completely different, as well as the filming. They […]
Rate it: 80% I love when I just watch random stuff on Netflix. This was a good one, and I’m going to have to watch others for sure. SPOILER ALERT This is a pretty good episode by Black Mirror. The concept is a crazy one. It essentially portrays a new form of punishment, or I […]
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The Girl in the Book. The movie.
Overall, this movie is bit above average. There is a truth to the portrayal of the complexity and speed of life, especially in the big apple, but at times the movie feels slow and bland. We can see the conflicts Alice the protagonist, played by VanCamp, faces in her everyday life as an assistant […]
To read Parts 1 and 2, click here and here. After lunch the following day, our ship arrived at Cierva Cove. I was one of the first in line for the Zodiac ride because the cove was stunningly gorgeous. We were surrounded by enormous icebergs that seemed like skyscrapers, compared to our little inflatable Zodiac. The […]
For Part 1, click here. Excited at the end of our first day in Antarctica, we set sail through the Gerlache Strait, a channel that separates the Palmer Archipelago from the Antarctic Peninsula. We were lucky enough to see stunning scenery in the form of dozens of enormous tabular icebergs. Tabular icebergs are slabs of ice that once […]