There has been a large increase of page views in the past two weeks, so I'll assume there are some new readers.
I want everyone to know what Ye Editor does.
Ye Editor, after 27 years of real white collar work, realized that he was allergic to work, and retired at age 51 in 2004, to start a new career as a lazy bum. When retired, every day of the week is like a Saturday.
Next step: what to do with my spare time that would be of some benefit to society.
At the time, I had one hobby, writing a for profit financial newsletter titled ECONOMIC LOGIC.
I added my Election Circus blog in Spring 2016 to cover the baloney spouted by both parties in the 2016 election campaign. I've since expanded this blog to include all subjects that did not fit into my other two blogs.
Here's what Ye Editor does:
Three quarters of my "work" is finding articles each day that are interesting, with a target of four for this blog. four climate and energy articles, and one financial article.
I search for articles unlikely to ever get in the mass media.
I always include a link to the full article, unless i wrote it myself, unable to find enough good material by others.
One thing I never do is to delete any articles. Not only because I'm a lazy bum -- but because that is honest. I do post "ads" saying I have other blogs -- when I post a new "ad", I delete the old "ad". Nothing else changes, except to correct spelling error. That policy helps me avoid publishing articles with questionable data and/or conclusions. The internet has enough of those articles.
I publish a reformatted version with spaces between each sentence, and a larger font, to make them easier to read. I use my iPhoto software to make any charts easier to read.
I put my BS degree to good use to determine if any sentences are BS or jumping to conclusions: So I delete predictions (usually wrong), sarcastic remarks (pointless). jumping to conclusions that are not supported by the body of the article, and any products the author is trying to sell. I recently began summarizing key points from long articles, and referring readers to the full article at the link if they are interested in reading the whole article.
A recent example was a David Stockman article about January 6, 2021. A well written article spoiled by generic attacks on former president Trump at the end. I deleted those attacks, and the bizarre claim that President Trump could have somehow stopped the Capitol Building riot while it was in progress. The result after editing was the best article I'd read in the past 24 hours, and I said so.
