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Money Honey by J. Manfred Weichsel Book Review

Money Honey by J. Manfred Weichsel [Amazon link] is a short story done in Weichsel’s signature style of biting political satire with over-the-top absurdity. The title of the book is the same as the hit song by Clyde McPhatter and the Drifters. “Money Honey” has been covered by an

Linkfest 2021-08-20: More Science Than You're Used To

DarwinCatholic: COVID Death Trends: The Young and the Old Are Okay Now My internet friend Brendan Hodge at Darwin Catholic shows us with CDC mortality data that the old and the young have largely returned to the pre-COVID trends. Well, the young never really left it. For those 65+ years

CDC Data on Vaccine Effectiveness in New York State

Yesterday, the CDC published New COVID-19 Cases and Hospitalizations Among Adults, by Vaccination Status — New York, May 3–July 25, 2021. The authors of this CDC study did what I suggested the authors of the Mayo-nference pre-print should have done. The CDC authors look at all the data for NY,

Tim Powers' Last Call on Sale on Amazon

Tim Powers’ Last Call is on sale on Amazon right now. You can get the ebook version for $1.99 USD. Last Call is an ambitious work. It weaves together secret history, grail legends, and Greek myth into a story so real you would swear it actually happened. If you

The Long View 2008-09-27: Mortgages and the Curse of the Fendahl

The episode that John J. Reilly references here is called “The Image of the Fendahl”, which is even embedded in the now dead link he had included. I think I can see why he called it “The Curse of the Fendahl” instead, as the titular alien species parasitized the people

Three Hearts and Three Lions on Sale on Amazon

Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson [Amazon link] is a leading favorite book of mine. It is on sale on Amazon today for $1.99 USD, Poul Anderson’s contribution of the story of Ogier the Dane is a worthy read for anyone interested in the Matter of

Breakthrough cases and the delta variant

I’ve had some discussions with people about the utility of vaccines against the variants of COVID-19. In general, my advice has been: mRNA vaccines will probably continue to provide the greatest protection, inactivated virus ones the least. I haven’t yet seen anything to alter that general advice. There