The Weekly Reader....

Randal Pinkett won the 4th season of "The Apprentice". Pinkett is a Harvard MBA, he's also outspoken about the president*.

I read an interview with him, once you get past the nasty racial implications, trump wanted him to share the win with the runner up, a white woman, that and the things trump said to him and about him. Pinkett said some interesting things about the Trump Organization and the working conditions.

Outside of the Donald's office the rest of the place was a dump, chipped paint, worn desks, out dated computers, many of them didn't work. trump didn't care. trump was disorganized, dictatorial, short tempered, profane, mercurial and disinterested in detail.

trump runs the White House the same way.

I've noticed the female Hillary haters have transferred their irrational hatred to Nancy Pelosi. Same people, the same Bullshit. Few of their comments are on policy, almost entirely on looks.

Not much was written about this session at the Davos Economic (billionaires) Forum. It was on AI and automation of work by robots. The rich guys loved it, 40% of industrial jobs will disappear within the next couple of decades. Automated over the road trucks will eliminate almost a 1,000,000 jobs in the US alone. Very exciting, right? One astute economist threw some cold water on the billionaire boners by asking "who exactly is going to buy your products?" Damn good question. If you want to know about the automated future read "Player Piano" by Kurt Vonnegut.

Speaking of billionaires, Howard Schultz of Starbucks fame, didn't start the business, he was selling coffee making equipment and was pitching his product to the guy who owned the first Starbucks in Seattle. He took the idea and ran with it. Good for you Howard, but stop saying it was your concept to begin with. He also didn't grow up poor in New York, he was a middle class kid, who lived in government subsidized housing for, get this, middle class New York WWII veterans.

I read an interview with a guy who is an Design Engineer for Audi. He's working on interior design. He brought up an interesting point, automobile interiors have always been designed around the steering wheel. He recently drove an Audi with a joystick instead of a steering wheel. He said it was fun, intuitive and very easy to use. With the various levels of "self driving" rapidly approaching, the entire concept of automotive seating and control surfaces have to be re-imagined. With the advances in automation, he said, seat belts will have to be addressed. In the future seating will be fully adaptive. Club seating, seats on 3 and 4 way axis in addition to standard seating. He envisions "smart airbags" that would eliminate the need for seatbelts.

I just started an article about a guy who was shot 16 times by the cops. He survived. It was another overreaction by the cops who burst into to his room after arresting the son of the landlord on a drug charge. When I finish it, I'll pass it on. By the way, the guy is white.