If you wanted to cut waste, fraud, and abuse, you would empower the inspectors general.

If you wanted more waste, fraud, and abuse, you would fire them.

It’s 32 degrees on a February evening. There’s a winter weather advisory until morning due to freezing rain. All relatively normal. Please tell me why, however, I’m sitting in the middle of a thunderstorm?

Seriously, try the free Apple TV+ trial this weekend. Just open the app and start watching. Ted Lasso, Shrinking, For All Mankind, Slow Horses, Bad Monkey, Severance, Schmigadoon!, The Morning Show… There are more good shows than you can binge in a weekend, but it’s worth a try.

I am posting this from my local public library!

Walking by houses with deflated Xmas decorations during the day is a bit like passing by a bloodless murder scene.

I’m all for reducing unnecessary packaging, but retailers should *always* tell you if items are shipping in their orig boxes. We’ve had two Xmas gifts spoiled already this year.

Hello, Bluesky. I publish nonfiction/professional titles and textbooks, currently in healthcare. Not going to make this a promotional account, but I don’t want it to *only* be curmudgeonly observations and snark. Feel free to say hi, particularly fellow Midwesterners and blue people in red states.