By Kent R. Kroeger (May 17, 2022) Nearing the 40-year anniversary of the mostly forgotten US Festival concerts (which were held in 1982 and 1983), I am reminded of one of the bands that performed in the 1983 concert… “The only band that matters.” That was The Clash’s moniker among…

By Kent R. Kroeger (May 13, 2022) Disclaimer: I am statistician by training, freelance writer by choice, and an auditor at Amazon out of financial necessity. All grammatical errors and factual inaccuracies in this essay are mine alone. And, as always, do not make financial, medical or personal decisions based…

By Kent R. Kroeger (April 16, 2022) Disclaimer: I am statistician, freelance writer and a serviceable Tex-Mex chili cook. All grammatical errors and factual inaccuracies in this essay are mine alone. And, as always, do not make financial, medical or personal decisions based on the contents herein. Definitions: The lab-leak…

By Kent R. Kroeger (April 4, 2022) Could anyone have predicted, years in advance, Russia’s February 24th invasion of Ukraine? The answer is so emphatically ‘Yes!,’ it is hard to fathom what the counter-argument might be. Perhaps we should start with the main instigator himself, Russian President Vladimir Putin, who…

By Kent R. Kroeger (April 3, 2022) The need for objective research research cannot be compromised simply because the issue is socially sensitive or politically contentious. I recently watched a conversation between Joe Rogan and Adam Conover, the comedian host of truTV’s Adam Ruins Everything, about trans-athletes. The conversation was…

By Kent R. Kroeger (March 29, 2022) Are we still so culturally backward that men have to defend the ‘honor’ of their wives when verbally attacked? Are we still in the Miocene epoch? Are we living in Saudi Arabia? Insult my wife. She can defend herself. Women aren’t property or…

By Kent R. Kroeger (March 17, 2022) “Truth is what you get other people to believe.” — Tommy Smothers Larry Diamond, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University, summarized the mainstream view of Vladimir Putin’s Russia by the American foreign policy…

By Kent R. Kroeger (February 28, 2022) “My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.” Adlai Stevenson “If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.” George Orwell Freedom can never…

By Kent R. Kroeger (February 24, 2022) In a previous essay, I shared a statistical model that partitioned variation in COVID-19 death rates across the 50 U.S. states (plus the District of Columbia) based on a variety of factors, including the stringency of state COVID-19 policies, vaccination rates, preexisting economic…