WHY ARE WE HERE? WHERE WILL WE GO?

As I'm completing this posting last night soon after the first presidential debate, I'll hope to get reinforced by non-partisan polls, but my sense is that Joe Biden did okay, but Donald Trump bullied himself to extinction.  There will be a VP debate next Tuesday, followed by two more presidential skirmishes, but it would be best for Biden to just move and maybe avoid that travesty.   Trump needed to make a difference to pull in undecided voters.  He miserably failed.  All Biden had to do was hold his own.  That he did.  No need to do it again. The  speculation for extraterrestrial life : Began over 2000 years ago in Greece: Then Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler, who had to be careful because of The Church, helped pave the way for these creative thoughts. In 1686 Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle wrote  Conversations on the Plurality of Worlds .  A paperback version today from Amazon costs $20. Much of the search even in those days has been for intelligent life. 1869:  French inven

Now that the coronavirus pandemic has claimed its millionth life, how long will it last?   Politico obtained the views of eleven experts  in the field, and here is what they say on how it will end.  Read my posting on what this death toll will be at the end of this year.  You'll be shocked! Note how quickly Donald Trump's initial knee-jerk reaction to The New York Times article about his taxes changed from fake news to the illegality of this all.  Why?  Then he'd need to release them himself to prove them right. So why is this a big day?  To begin: The first presidential debate, moderated by Chris Wallace of Fox News,   starts tonight at 9 Eastern  (3PM Hawaii). It will last 90 minutes and feature six topics that Wallace has chosen: the candidates’ records; the Supreme Court; the coronavirus; the economy; race and violence in cities; and the integrity of the election. Wallace has said he will not fact-check the candidates during the debate . More than anything else, the

Borrowing from Howard Cosell in 1973 when George Foreman knocked down Joe Frazier for the first of six times, winning by a TKO in the second round, yesterday, President Donald Trump was floored by The New York Times , reporting on ten years of his tax returns, then later into the night a Showtime miniseries, The Comey Rule , put him down again.  The third knockdown could well be tonight when part 2 of The Comey Rule will be shown. For those who subscribe to Showtime and missed part 1, it plays in Hawaii at 4:25PM today again, with part 2 to immediately follow at 6PM.  If you don't have a recorder and can't make those times, Showtime 2 repeats from 8:30 PM in Hawaii through 12:15AM.  I think the West and East Coast times are three hours later.  That is, on Showtime at 7:25PM for P1 and 9PM for P2 tonight.  If you don't have Showtime, you can get a free month trial, then pay $11/month if you continue.  If you want to quit...good luck.  Nah, just kidding. The miniseries is b

On Sundays I normally post something spiritual.  I will do so next week.  I just stumbled across a World Bank projection that stunned me so much that I just had to share this bit of info with you. The World just experienced its one millionth COVID-19 death.  With 4% of the global population, the USA has a little more than 20% of all deaths.  We've recently experienced between 500 and 1000 deaths per day, but I just noticed a  World Bank projection  ( updated on 24 September 2020 ) showing that the United States on 1 January 2021 will be getting: 1,185 deaths/day if there is universal mask-wearing. 3,059 deaths/day if we maintain our current state of mask-wearing. 6,618 deaths/day if we open up our economy. The highest one-day deaths peaked on 16 April 2020 at 2,323 deaths.   Further, the U.S. had 43,206 new cases yesterday.  The peak new cases per day of 283,236 occurred on 29 March 2020.  As projected by the  World Bank  for 1 January 2021: 263,694 new cases/day  with  universal (