It has been more than 10 weeks since my last story was published. It is not a case of writer’s block. It’s not for lack of topics to discuss. It’s not the weather nor the holidays nor illness. …

Two months ago I wrote about TOPSY TURVEY MIDTERM ELECTIONS https://medium.com/@cybridge/topsy-turvey-midterm-elections-f077c4408b39 . Polls open in less than 24 hours where I live — and things are still Topsy Turvey. I wrote that “Conventional wisdom is rarely wise in a dynamic world.” …

Conventional wisdom is rarely wise in a dynamic world. Beginning in the (extended) last days of the 2020 presidential election, political punditry agreed, and the conventional wisdom of American politics clearly predicted, that 2022 is to be a Republican Wave year. Nonsense! Extrapolating from a limited set of data, the…

DOES ANYBODY REALLY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? PANDEMIC EDITION I started writing about high gas prices. Then gas prices fell more than 10%. I started writing about the demise of Ukraine. Then Putin’s war stalled. It can’t just be me. Our multiple pipelines of information appear to be too…

BOOK REVIEW: The Premonition, A Pandemic Story, by Michael Lewis My favorite restaurant in Austin, Texas has a clone in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When last I visited Albuquerque, I eagerly anticipated New Mexico’s version of Texas Hill Country Bar-B-Que. …

The oddsmakers still favor Russia over Ukraine CREDIT: medium.com Football is our Favorite Metaphor for War It is halftime in Putin’s Ukraine War. The underdogs have won the first half — but not without sustaining terrible losses. Halftime is when teams rest, recover and revise game plans. The cheerleaders and…

When Only One Side Fears Mutually Assured Destruction — Since before the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine earlier this year President Biden has ominously made it clear that direct military confrontation between Russia and the United States or NATO would be “World War III”. It should not be strange to ask “what does that really mean?” In…

I just watched Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s address to the Congress of the United States. He has become an important world leader, and the world needs to do more to help Ukraine. Having said that, some constructive criticism of his speech is not out of order. The speech had three…