…of the latest book by my friend, Lee Smolin, “Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution: The Search for What Lies Beyond the Quantum,” which is to be a Christmas present to a family…

…his helping “forgotten Americans.” This was the amazingly Scroogeish policy of dumping people from getting food stamps just as the holiday season arrived, probably part of the “War on Christmas.”…

…the Congress for the holidays* in December….. I propose to make [a few brief remarks] upon this the first occasion I have had for reply.  [*Note: oh noes! The War…

…leverage. He suggests that Democrats are holding back because they are worried about being labeled obstructionist and getting blamed if legislation does not pass. I agree with some of his…

…NJ, early in the 2000s. I remember well its slogan, “It’s not so sweet.” And that Mom patronised the shop, for its homemade solid Easter bunnies, its Christmas Santas, and…

…likely that the Dakotas at least will surpass the total per capita death tolls of NY and NJ by Christmas. At the other end of the spectrum, there is a…

…is, relatively speaking, just a blip. Over the past 10 years November sales, unadjusted, had typically improved over 3% m/m as the Christmas season ramped up. This year sales declined…

…in weekly numbers by an order of magnitude. That was especially so this week. Typically in the weeks after Christmas and New Years’, claims go up by 25,000 to 50,000…

…a year when the pandemic is causing changes in weekly numbers by an order of magnitude. Typically in the weeks after Christmas and New Years’, claims go up by 25,000…

…through the year, which occurs for various reasons, such as national holidays (a good time for a vacation) and the Christmas holiday (when volumes surge). The Commission wanted to see…