I never really had an aunt. My mom and dad each have one brother; one of them never married, and the other did three times. In the late 80’s, when my dad worked for the Christian Booksellers Association, he befriended a couple who had a book and gift store in Wisconsin. When he introduced his…
About a year ago we employees found out that the three partners in our little law firm had agreed to merge with the largest personal injury law firm in the state. Since then, we have been nearly overwhelmed with new clients because this firm is the one that advertises non-stop. Being super busy and having…
We live a 10 minute drive from the nearest town, which has a post office, a liquor store, three restaurants (although one of them has announced it is closing for good on Sunday), and a grocery store that’s more of a bodega and is definitely not a supermarket. Being Colorado, the town also boasts a…
I think I can say with reasonable confidence that I was wrong in my prior estimations of a super-low herd immunity threshold. Things are not looking good for COVID in most of the world. Colorado is seeing 10 times as many daily new cases as in the summer, and the United States as a whole…
Time for a bit of a personal COVID epistemic update. To reiterate: I’m no expert, and while there’s no shortage of those, plenty of folks keep asking what I think. First, let me talk about the things it looks like I may have been wrong about. I’ve been pretty loudly claiming that the low-threshold herd…