Gotta’ share these two news items from this week. Junk science? You decide.

First up is NPR’s take on men vs. women in the sports world.

A great article recapping the numerous “the world is going to end” predictions” that have yet to materialize.

Climate Doomsday Predictions Have Not Aged Well

“Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.”

Herbert Hoover

As true today as it was back in Hoover’s day. One day a straw will come along and break the camel’s back.

Let the experts monitor such things as the GDP (Gross Domestic Product), the PMI (Purchasing Manager’s Index), the CPI (Consumer Purchasing Index) and the many other assorted statistical data sets.

As for me, my go to barometer of the US economy is the cost of a hot dog and soda at Costco. In that regard I am happy to report Richard Galanti, Costco CFO, recently announced the price remains at $1.50!

If Costco ever has to adjust that cost upwards you know the economy is in dire straights and it will be time to hunker down, tighten the hatches and scale back on major expenditures.

For now – life is good.

A Billion Here a Billion There

No doubt you have heard the saying that no matter what the government touches ends in a mess. Well, the fed’s got into the student loan business some years ago. At the time the powers to be projected $6 would be made for every $100 loaned. Recent GAO report shows the taxpayer funded loan business has actually lost $9 for every $100 loaned out. Ooooops! Measly $300+ billion miscalculation. [Details]

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Fickle Fate of Science

For decades science has been telling us a “Big Bang” created the cosmos. Maybe not! Images being returned from the latest space gadget (James Webb Space telescope aka JWST) are casting serious doubt on that theory. Many brainiacs who make figuring this out their livelihood are experiencing great angst.

Todays “science” can be tomorrows fake news. Or, is that the other way around? [Details]

NOTE: This is a repost of my inital message.

Taking a break from my brain numbing, headache inducing activities involving HP’s annual health insurance Open Enrollment exercise I created a Facebook “page”.

Zuckerberg used to let bloggers cross post their articles to a Facebook account profile. That was ixnayed quite a while back. So now a person has to create a Facebook “page” to do this.

I never have been a FB fanboy because of its’ privacy policies and the absurd challenges to locking down your privacy on the platform. Lets not even get into FB’s other activities such as censoring the media.

With that said I threw the towel in and created a “page”. So once again blog posts from BoiseNeus.org will magically appear in the FB realm under the BoiseNeus Blog “page”. I will be sending out a few invites. If you don’t receive an invite search for BoiseNeus Blog while logged into your FB account.

The FB BoiseNeus Blog is an adjunct to the website BoiseNeus.org. If you haven’t please visit the website to see personal items that I rather not have on Facebook. The site does require registration.

Cheers!