If you’re interested in political history (or just current affairs viewed through the lens of a political historian) haven’t come across Heather Cox Richardson, I highly recommend her daily summaries.

Specific to this one, it’s worth remembering that we still have an election running and, it seems that the Republican Party is intent on using the pandemic as a way of magnifying their power.

In this case, we have primary elections which really should be either postponed, moved to vote by mail or otherwise have significant allowances for the pandemic. Unfortunately, all attempts to do any of these have been subverted and we’re looking at attempts to run elections as in person affairs with a small handful of polling places (because sensibly, the volunteers who would normally staff polling places are mostly staying home).

I was having a conversation with a friend about tax rates and the idea that we should go back to higher rates (say, what was done in the 1940’s and 1950’s). I’ve seen a lot of confusion about what this means and what kind of effect it has on the amount of money you keep at the end of the day. So, I wrote up this table showing the tax rates from 1944 (paid in 1945) and then converted 1944 dollars to 2020 dollars to build a comparison table.

Recently, Paralenz announced their next generation of dive cameras, the Vaquita which prompted me to write up this post about the things I love and the areas I’m hoping they will improve in the next generation. My summary on this device is that the hardware is very good and the software is mediocre, it’s worth getting as long as the caveats don’t impact your use case (although at this specific time, I’d wait for the Vaquita which should come out in April).

Recently, Paralenz announced their next generation of dive cameras, the Vaquita which prompted me to write up this post about the things I love and the areas I’m hoping they will improve in the next generation. My summary on this device is that the hardware is very good and the software is mediocre, it’s worth getting as long as the caveats don’t impact your use case (although at this specific time, I’d wait for the Vaquita which should come out in April).