You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Some of you may have noticed that I’ve been gone for about a week. I want to take this opportunity to tell you why. It’s not because I gave up the fight or suddenly became a supporter of inflation
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You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! It’s time for another episode of PonkaBlog Shorts. Today you get four short articles instead of one long one. It’s the same amount of snark, just in bite-sized chunks. Alec Baldwin Let’s start with a pop quiz. If someone
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! 80 million sounds like a pretty big number. That’s because in most scenarios, it is. For example, let’s say we were talking about 80 million inches. That’s a lot of inches. In fact, 80 million inches is about the
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! There’s a strange inverse relationship between how old you are, how deadly COVID-19 is, and how likely you are to have a bad adverse reaction to one of the COVID vackseens. COVID-19 impacts the elderly more than it does
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The Eskimos (though I’m pretty sure that term is no longer considered acceptable) have over 50 words for snow. That’s a lot. I know because I grew up in Minnesota, so I consider myself an expert on snow. But
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! In honor of Halloween, I’m going to tell you a scary story. It’s a story not of what for sure will happen, but of what may happen. And no one can tell you for sure that it won’t. To
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! The Biden Administration just announced a change to the COVID policy for international travelers coming to the United States. Starting November 8th, unvacksinated U.S. citizens and long-term residents will have to present a negative COVID test taken a day
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Did you know that this week is National Free Speech Week? It is. And, since my freedom of speech allows me to talk about whatever I want, I’m going to talk about censorship. I was emailing yesterday with one
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! Over the course of my life, I’ve worked for a number of startup companies. The thing about startups is that they’re almost always looking for money. After an especially brutal investor pitch, we were told that the reason we
You can also listen to this article on The PonkaBlog Podcast! My sister and her family like avocados. A lot. The problem is that they live in central Minnesota. Not that living in Minnesota is a problem. It’s the combination of living in Minnesota and wanting fresh avocados that’s the