The situation is becoming untenable

July 17, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 3 Comments

Ah, yes. The truth- and the dangers- are now becoming obvious.

The GOP was desperate to provide a benefit to their benefactors. So, they lowered the corporate tax rates to a ridiculously low 21%. Even though most corporations never paid the much bandied about 35% rate. (Only professional corporations and small businesses got stuck with that level of taxes. Big corporations always hid- and still do- their profits from the tax man.)

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Energy, Technology

30 years ago today

July 16, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 21 Comments

Samuel Ruben died 30 years ago today. 2 days beyond his 88^th birthday.

Why should you care? Because Samuel Ruben invented the dry cell battery, that ubiquitous device that lets us have power without being tethered to an electric utility.

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Taxes

Yeah. A Postcard.

July 13, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

OK. You all know that we are now living under a new tax law (PL115-97, aka Tax Cuts and Jobs Act). One with a purported “much” higher standard deduction, which means fewer folks will be able to (or have to) itemize.

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Technology

Car 54, where are you?

July 12, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

More than 35 years ago, I developed a new dialysate system, one that was more physiological for patients. And, we began selling our product all over America- and then the world.

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Economy, Medicine

Not playing with a full deck at all

July 11, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 12 Comments

You know the statement playing with a full deck?

If you play pinochle, then your full deck is considered to be 48 cards. If you play with a conventional deck, it increases to 52. Except that’s not really true. Because a conventional deck has two jokers.

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Medicine, Technology

Be a Pill!

July 10, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 6 Comments

When we take pills, we rarely consider the amazing facts that let us do so.

Do you ever consider that the pill we are taking is required to survive the hydrochloric and other acids in our stomach? (Even if that pill is meant to travel around our body from the stomach, the “guts” of the pill have to survive our guts!) And, if we need intestinal transfer (often where the transmission to our body is the best means of delivery), then the pill needs to be able to withstand all the enzymes in our intestines that were designed to break down proteins and then allow the dosage to pass through the mucus layer that protects the intestines from our enzymes and stuff we eat.

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Business Management, Economy

What’s in a Gig?

July 9, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

The gig economy. Solopreneurship.

According to the newspapers and magazines, this is a flourishing sector of the economy. (Please note that they define flourishing as lots of folks involved- not that those so involved have amassed significant profits.)

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Economy

You have to be carefully taught

July 6, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 16 Comments

This is not going to be pretty. It’s going to get a bunch of you pissed off- not that I care too terribly much. After all, we never should cater to bigots.

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Economy

God Bless America

July 5, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 8 Comments

Pogroms led many a Jewish family to pick up stakes and head for the ‘goldene medina’ (the “golden land”)- the sobriquet many used to describe the United States. Not much different from the thoughts of those in Central America, subjected to mayhem and kidnapping or murder, those in Syria subject to chemical attacks and barrel bombs from their ‘government’. And are welcomed as readily (i.e., NOT) by American citizenry.

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Don't Index

3 cheers for the Red, White, and Blue…

July 4, 2018 Roy A. Ackerman, Ph.D., E.A. 14 Comments

So, we celebrate today as our Independence Day. Despite the fact that the Declaration was issued a few days earlier than this some 242 years ago. And, as was true for Israel when it declared its independence in 1948, the neighbors weren’t so sure we were independent. OK. Not the neighbors- Brittain. Sure , it decided to pull out of the States, but the War of 1812 was really the end of our long battle(s) for independence from Brittain.

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