Beyond Meat sausages and Burger King’s Impossible burgers are delicious.

Sing “the cowman and the farmer should be friends” as much as you want, but let’s face it: plant-based burgers threaten the meat industry, which is trying to get you to see them as unhealthy.

Before you fall for that, read the truth.

Plant-based […]

Remember magazines?

Remember magazine profiles?

I used to write them for Clay Felker’s NEW YORK Magazine.  Clay would meet someone at a party, decide he was interesting (or, less frequently, she, given the power structure of the 70’s), and persuade him to allow one of his writers to follow him around.  Sometimes I was that […]

But first . . .

Russ MacAusland: “Andrew…….NBIX !!!!!”

→ The best performing stock of the past decade, up from $2.50 to $110!  So why haven’t I doubled your subscription price?  You’ll find the answer in this 2014 post:

NBIX jumped 90% yesterday, to $18.50, which is great for those of you […]

SPECIE: Could the Truebill app save you a little coin?   Definitely worth reading the review.  (Thanks, George!)

SPECIES — INCLUDING OUR OWN:  Definitely worth these four minutes.  (Thanks, CBS Sunday Morning!)

BOREF: no need to take any action.  Go back to sleep.

GLDD: now that we finally have our reward, up from […]

But first watch this two-minute message from all our candidates — the ones you like and the ones you don’t.

If you buy their message and are in a position to help, click here.

NOW is the time, while the organizing snowball has the most time to roll downhill, accumulating volunteers as it […]

But first, money:

Fred C: “A year ago I wrote and asked you to write more about finance and suggested once a week and you agreed to try.  I haven’t kept track but I know you have failed miserably.  I looked at the ten most recent posts and they have all been political rantings and […]

It ends with: “We have seen advances in every aspect of our lives except our humanity.”

Something to work on in the New Year.

A good start would be a president with empathy.

Remember the president famous for saying, “I feel your pain?”  Who, after leaving office, worked to attack problems of poverty, disease, […]

Trump had Mulvaney block military aid to Ukraine in 2017.

“The stated reason at the time,” reports Seth Abramson, “was Trump didn’t want to upset Russia.”

Leading one to wonder: who’s side is America on?  Russia’s?  America’s?

Look past the sarcasm that begins the thread — I know from personal experience that sarcasm, though […]

Steve G, reacting to  yesterday’s post: “Bloomberg vs. Trump . . . Scylla vs. Charybdis.”

→ Scylla and Charybdis!  Yes!  Except Mike is honest and Trump is not.  Mike is steady, gracious, and dignified; Trump is vulgar, vicious, and volatile.  Mike is doing this to make a better world; Trump fell into it for […]

And I think you may like him, too, after listening to this podcast.

It raises scary strategic issues of which anyone hoping to win the White House should be aware.

The really hopeful news?  Whether or not he wins the nomination, he is spending heavily — now, in the states that matter — to […]