Gongol.com Archives: February 2017
February 7, 2017
We are better than this. Let's act like it.
Max Boot, a conservative, criticizing the Republican Party: "By not doing more to distance itself from this morally obtuse president, the Republican Party is becoming, de facto, the party of moral relativism."
3-day weather forecasts in 2017 are as good as 1-day forecasts in the 1980s
Improved granularity of forecasting is making things much more accurate.
Russia is literally trying to freeze out Ukraine
Without energy for heat, people literally suffer in the cold. It's not warfare, but it's the asymmetric application of pressure.
In selling CBS Radio, the parent also sells the heritage call letters
Even though CBS Radio stations won't have anything to do with CBS anymore, the KCBS and WCBS call letters will go with the sale, at least for 20 years. How the heritage networks have treated their radio assets is really extraordinary: NBC Radio was killed off, then brought back from the dead. ABC Radio was owned by Cumulus for several years until the deal folded in 2014, and then it was brought back from the dead at the start of 2015 not in its classic format but predominantly as a promotional arm of the parent. It's all quite odd.
Watch the flows of immigration over the years
Watch where the people come from over the years
