Taking notes...

Taking notes...  I noticed many years ago that if I took notes, pen on paper style, at a lecture or meeting, I'd remember the important things much better.  This was true even if I threw the notes away and never looked at them again.  In my corporate life I then developed a habit of taking extensive notes at meetings and often even during one-on-one conversations.  When I was managing teams of engineers, this was extremely useful, as it allowed me to remember many different things in a complex and ever-shifting environment. 

Now there's research that backs up my observation about the value of taking notes...

Replace alcohol?

Replace alcohol?  Ryan Cooper wants the government to fund research for a replacement for alcohol – because it's such a terrible recreational drug (highly addictive and physiologically damaging with heaving long-term use).  He makes the point that alcohol is worse in many ways than the currently illegal recreational drugs, including even heroin.

I'm not sure we need new research here.  Seems to me we just need to make the already existing, much safer drugs (like marijuana) legal.  Consumers can then freely choose to abstain, to use the safer drugs, or continue to use alcohol...

Follow the money...

Follow the money...  Oh, my:

"Follow the money." That apocryphal phrase, attributed to Watergate whistle-blower "Deep Throat," explains why the biggest threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential dreams is not her emails. It's her family foundation. That's where the money is: corporate money, foreign money, gobs of money sloshing around a vanity charity that could be renamed "Clinton Conflicts of Interest Foundation."

If these allegations prove to have any truth to them at all, that really might doom Hillary's quest for the monarchy presidency...