The Griffin Museum of Science and Industry was founded by a Jew, Julius Rosenwald : Funding for a major expansion was provided by a Jewish family led by Henry Crown ( Henry Krinsky ): (Ken Griffin provided the latest slug of funding for the museum, shortly before coronapanic and the peaceful BLM riots led him to relocate to Miami and Griffin is not, to my knowledge, Jewish.) Does the Museum…
As in Maskachusetts (old law; updated recently as noted below), a pregnant person s pregnancy can be terminated in Illinois at any gestational phase via abortion care if the pregnant person s mental health can be thus protected . (Given that any child has the potential to drive a parent crazy , any pregnancy in any pregnant person can be subjected to abortion care at any time.) Here are the rules…
It was fun to mock the English academics who promoted Jason Arday to various positions, but I was saddened to hear of his death : In my view, the responsibility for this man s death lies entirely with those who set up the racist system ( DEI ) that prevailed while he received his degrees and his academic jobs. The absurd inventions that Dr. Arday spun, e.g., running 30 marathons in 35 days, were a…
As noted previously, the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago is ironically named for Ken Griffin, one of the most famous examples of a person abandoning Chicago during coronapanic and the peaceful BLM riots of 2020. Here s a report on some fun stuff that is inside. AMTRAK customers will be pleased to learn about a train that went 112 mph in 1893 while pulling four six-axle parlor cars with…
Happy National Financial Awareness Day to those who celebrate We had a family discussion about the possibility that even successful people might be forced to work, e.g., to pay for a child s college expenses. It doesn t matter how much you earn, I told the kids. It is always possible to spend every last penny. They dispute this. I cited examples of second and third homes, of first class airline…
I know that everyone here has tickets to visit The Obama Presidential Center in Chicago (don t forget to show ID if you want to pay the Illinois resident rate). While visiting this celebration of our greatest president, don t forget to walk a few steps to the Griffin Museum of Science and Industry and see U-505 , one of only two German U-boats captured and towed away by the Allies intact during…
Happy we re still right our 2 percent annual inflation target day to everyone from the BLS . Let s look at part of the CPI that used to be deflationary and that is now inflationary: personal computers. June 25, 2026 invoice for 1.5 TB of RAM that my friend bought for his home PC: The IBM PC was born with 16 KB (base) of RAM in Boca Raton 45 years ago (announced August 12, 1981). From the Boca…
Polls are about to close in Wisconsin s primary election. According to polls, Francesca Hong is the highest quality Democrat in the entire state. Will the election results confirm this anointment? Democrats in Maine voted in overwhelming numbers for a man whose brain was found to be 100% non-functional by the VA (thus qualifying him for 100% disability; of course, democracy ultimately required…
What are folks predicting regarding tomorrow s official inflation number? My guess: 4% annual. What s the real rate? Let s look at this Microplane cheese grater , a combination of U.S. and Mexican manufacturing. It was $12.95 in November 2014. Adjusted to official CPI, it should be about $18.50 today. In fact, however, it had gone up to only $12.99 at the end of June when I decided to see how much…
The Florida Democratic primary for Senate is on August 18. One baffling aspect: Alex Vindman not only moved to Florida during the tyranny of Ron DeSantis (in 2023), but now the foreign-born carpetbagger is trying to take away a Black woman s job in the Senate primary. Vindman says that he has a 15-year-old daughter: I'm running for Senate to lower your costs. So that young people like my…