Brown Motion

I am making bold predictions in 2020.  Not hindsight but foresight.  So enjoy and profit from these. Before you discard these gems below remember that many a nincompoop in the media has been making money by commenting and opining with headlines more bizarre than mine. Stock market will continue to gyrate in the foreseeable future. Earth will experience several earthquakes of magnitude four or higher in four or more years. Anyone infected with Covid is more or less contagious for several days. Person infected with Covid can be asymptomatic and still infect other people at times more easily than them catching another virus from another. Every prediction has a small chance of success. There is a high likelihood that people will get sick and die in the next 24 hours. If only people stopped breathing we could have avoided this whole Covid mess. America is headed for an election year where both likely nominees are going to need a respirator or a pacemaker or both. I...

I attempted to read this book by author Chuck Klosterman backward to forward but it started hurting my brain so I decided to stop and do it like any other publication in the English language.  Start from page 1 and move to the right. Witty, caustic and thought provoking this is a book you want to read if you believe that the status quo might, just might be wrong. At times bordering on being contrarian about most things around us it tries to zero in on the notion of what makes anything believable and certain in our minds.  The fact that there is a fact itself is ironic.  Something analogous to the idea that you can never predict the future because there is no future. Many books and movies have tried to play on this concept - best that I recollect (I think I am) was 'The Truman Show'.  This book by Klosterman attempts to provoke the reader to at least contemplate that what they think they know may be wrong. He uses examples like concept of gravity, and how it ...