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Daily Archives: November 17th, 2015

A horrible, very bad idea

Smoking would be prohibited in public housing homes nationwide under a proposed federal rule announced on Thursday, a move that would affect nearly one million households and open the latest front in the long-running campaign to curb unwanted exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke. via The New York Times I am second to no one in […]

Big Numbers

As most of us know when we think about it, a million dollars isn’t what it used to be. Not that I would mind having a million or so, but nonetheless.. People have trouble with big numbers. It’s likely an individual thing, but for almost everyone there’s a large number that is emotionally indistinguishable from […]