John T. Reed’s news blog

Opioids kill pain and apparently are enjoyable to many. I have never used them much and never overused them, but I found they may me feel groggy and sleepy which I did not think was enjoyable..The following was once said about heroin..Beginning is euphoric, continuing is disaster, and quitting is impossible..But I come to you today not to comment on opioids, but rather to note the enormous similarities between opioid use and addiction and consequences of Trump hatred..Trump hatred is apparently great fun for many. They are gleeful, euphoric when they engage in it. “We’re gonna impeach the MFer,” said...

Intermarriage is erasing race. Calling someone just black or white or Asian or whatever becomes more inaccurate with each decade. . For example, today's WSJ has its reporters Joshua Jamerson and Tarini Parti making the flat statement the Kamela Harris "is black." She is also described as African-American. . In fact, by NATURE, she is about 45% African, 50% Tamil, and 5% Caucasian. By NURTURE, she was raised by a single-Tamil mom in Berkeley, CA and Montreal, Canada. Both of her parents are tenured professors are top universities (Stanford and McGill). . I have noted that African-American military brats (children...

To the spoils belongs the victor. Marshall MacLuhan said that. I love that line. As Harvard MBAs my wife and I know an unusual number of wealthy people. My middle son also got to know David Geffen, the richest man in Hollywood and others in that crowd..One thing I noticed is that in many ways, the things that YOU own OWN YOU. In my book How to Manage Residential Real Estate for Maximum Case Flow and Resale Value, I calculated that for each residential rental unit, you have to spend 4.6 hours on the various chores the unit demands: leasing,...

My birthday gift from my ranger buddy is a book about ranger school based on the diary of a West Point cadet who went there in June and July 1980 while he was a cadet on summer leave. My ranger buddy and I and about half of our West Point class went there in Class #69-3 in August, September and October of 1968..First, giving up your summer leave to go to ranger school strikes me as certifiable insanity. You have plenty of time to go through such crap after graduation. For my class, we got 2nd lieutenant pay and it...

A historic thing is happening, but no one is talking about it. America has a chance to defeat a whole lot of our long-time enemies. The enemies in question are horrifically weakened and ripe to be thrown out of office by their people:.They are: .North KoreaCubaVenezuelaIranChinaand maybe Russia..Trump could replicate and exceed Reagan’s winning the Cold War..Shots probably need to fired in Iran. .But in the rest of them, just demand they clean up their act and behave like peaceful, non-threatening, good neighbors. Cut them no slack. Make them behave like Switzerland or Japan or Canada. .How can anyone complain about that? Another...