Am getting so sick of winning. But I’d just like to congratulate President Stable Genius for the terrific job he’s doing crashing the stock market, so that we don’t get too big for our britches with a false sense of financial security. Like I’ve always said, “Who needs a retirement fund?” Wouldn’t you rather own the libs than a roof over your head when you’re in your eighties?
Here’s my column on Covid in NY Mag that will please almost no one. I wrote about how the left and right got a lot quite wrong over the last five years.
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Like most parents, I've walked down the toy aisle and thought Legos are really getting expensive.
It turns out that this is a big complaint among adult Lego fans too, and a couple of readers had asked me to write about Lego pricing in my newsletter. So in the latest Pricing Evolution article I dove deep into Lego pricing.
I attended an Iowa Soybean Association meeting about 10 years ago and talked to a number of farmers. It amazed me how much anhydrous and hog manure was still being applied in the fall months. I asked a farmer why. He said it was pretty much because of logistics, to get the workload out of the way so it wouldn't have to be done in the spring. They knew they were losing a lot of N, but it was worth it.
When we do in-season nitrate tests of soil to see if we have enough N for the crop, 25 ppm is co…