Where I get to spout off
What a lot of noise
There’s a new cultural law: If it’s short, sensational, and has enough likes, it must be true. Add some video and boom, you’re off. Dare to verify anything, you’re branded as...
My recent quest for a genuine Nissan spare part led me down a rabbit hole filled with red flags I enthusiastically ignored. It all began with a Google search to find...
Today I am wound up about a peculiar Kenyan affliction: our government’s incurable addiction to announcing mind-bogglingly ambitious projects that, more often than not, dissolve into a quagmire of scandalous expenditure...
In the realm of political strategy, few tactics are as audacious, or effective, as the intentional dismantling of infrastructure, only to rebuild it later. We are all realising this the hard...
Sorry yesterdays post was sent by a gremlin before it was ready to go. Here it is again, corrected for what it’s worth. It’s always someone or something else to blame....
John Stoehr at the Editorial Board newsletter posits that “It could be that the last US election was about money. The economy was booming. Inflation was down. Wages were up. Unemployment...
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which people with limited competence in a particular domain overestimate their abilities. I only discovered this because an author described Elon Musks’ DOGE as loaded “with...
I recently read a social media comment about how ungrateful we are for all the aid money America has given us in the third world. I was also having a heated...
Noise pollution in Sarit Centre is horrible, but as you enter Carrefour it is further warning of things to come.As an ‘older’ shopper the volume of the music is to say...