Guns – Here Today, Here ForeverThe assassination of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk allegedly by college dropout Tyler Robinson has once again triggered the hue and cry for gun control.“People don’t kill people. Guns kill people.”How to stop it? Experts say tighten background checks. Don’t sell to anyone under 21. Ban sales of automatic weapons. Harden … Read more

Term limits are a great inventionWe are a country of inventors, from Thomas Edison to Willis Carrier to a couple of Steves (Jobs and Wozniak). A modest Who’s Who would take volumes. U.S. inventors have split the atom, invented jazz and pioneered flight.The shear number of inventions is staggering. They include recombinant DNA, the laser, … Read more

ROMEO and having a good timeAll you have to be is old. And sociable. And have a little spare time.It’s quite a phenomenon, this ROMEO thing – “Retired Old Men Eating Out.” Geezers getting together to dine and reminisce and do stuff that’s more fun doing in a group than by yourself.It’s a local club … Read more

That Costly JavaCoffee. I can’t do without it.I could quit drinking alcohol tomorrow, cold turkey. But not coffee.And I’m not alone. Coffee consumption has declined very little, if at all, in the U.S. (including Florida) in spite of staggering price increases, shortages and, sadly, an overall decline in quality. The good stuff is not as … Read more

Global Warming is Not About to Cool I look out my window and I see the dryness, Southwest Florida changing into Arizona. No cactus here, but there are palm trees turning brown, fronds withering and dropping, wetlands drying up. And the heat is unyielding. Most people stay indoors whenever they can, soaking up the AC, … Read more

Drones, drones everywhereThey are ubiquitous. Those annoying, buzzing things that look like mosquitoes from afar and come in all sizes and invade our lives in every way imaginable.They’re called drones and they’ve been around for a long time.The first recoverable “unmanned aerial vehicle” was developed just after World War I by the U.S. Navy and … Read more