October, 2018 A century before Amazon used on-line sales to revolutionize how Americans bought things, becoming the new 500-pound gorilla in retail sales, Sears Roebuck used its 700-page printed catalog to do the same thing. Anyone could buy almost anything from the Sears catalog and have it delivered directly to their home – including a…
October, 2018 If we had used Ranked Choice Voting in the 2016 presidential election Donald Trump might have won the popular vote as well as the Electoral College. My friends are shocked when I tell them that even so I am in favor of using Ranked Choice in presidential elections– if it is combined…
September, 2018 With the introduction of legal recreational use of marijuana, we will be seeing an increase in overdoses when people who haven’t used it in years, if ever, unwittingly take more than they can tolerate. That’s what happened to me and my wife, Kathy, in early September. I have Parkinson’s disease and last year,…
September, 2018 1. Did you know there are three states that do all their voting by mail? (Answers to all questions below.) 2. Do you know how vote-by-mail has affected the number of people who vote? Have you heard about any problems with it? 3. Do you know which city in Massachusetts uses Ranked Choice…
August 2018 One day in winter in the mid-60s, my Uncle John Vinti put his books on the roof of his old Nash Rambler so he could unlock the door. He did that, got in, and drove off. His books fell into the parking lot. After recovering from a severe depression with ECT (shock treatments),…