Wishing Fisker Good Luck with Its New Battery EV, But ….
My only reaction to the new EV offering from Fisker, the “Ocean,” is closer to PTSD than anything else.
About 10 years ago, venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins backed the luxury plug-in hybrid “Karma” to a disastrous end. I happened to be interviewing one of Kleiner’s most senior managing partners, Ray Lane, in his Menlo Park office at about the time it was becoming uncomfortably clear that the Karma was not going to make it all the way down the runway and cause a financial conflagration as memorable as the Hindenburg.
I scrupulously avoided the topic during my talk with Ray.
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Yes, pregnant women with certain medical conditions who can’t get access to abortions meet one very specific and inevitable outcome: death.
Here’s what a professor of theology at Georgetown University told me when I was young, when I happened to have asked him about his career, and his life more generally: Most people work 50 weeks of the year doing something they don’t enjoy (substitute words like hate, resent, put up with, etc.) so they can take a two-week vacation to Europe or the Caribbean. I do something I love every day of every year, and the idea of taking a vacation from it is beyond stupid; it’s ridiculous.
This is intriguing. Some things to consider:
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Growing up in Philadelphia, I was privileged to go to school with Morrie Schreibman, a smart and principled young man who ultimately moved to Israel and made a successful career for himself in software.
The tragic decline in the fiber of American society is the result of many factors: the decline in education, mass incarceration, blatant and unpunished corruption in government and the corporate world, and yes, the slow disappearance of the nuclear family.
When I walk into a crowded place, perhaps a grocery store, I often wonder how many of the adults in this place are open to ideas that may run counter to what they already believe.
The assertion made on this church’s sign is true in general. Most people, as they learn more about the world around them, especially from a scientific point of view, eventually reject monotheistic religion. They arrive at an impasse: I can either believe in things for which there is no empirical evidence, or I need to reject that position.
