John T. Reed’s news blog

I was revising my book on How to Write, Publish, and Sell Your Own How-To Book and wanted to show readers my author work desk so I took a photo and put it on line so I could put the URL in the book. . The biggest is a 48" wide Samsung curved-screen, high-definition TV. It is connected to the 27" diagonal iMac on the right so that I can move things from one screen to the other and the cursor moves from one computer to the other. . The computer on the left is an ancient Apple Cinema screen....

Interesting column by Greg Ip in today's WSJ. "Virus Hastens Shift to Asset-Light Economy." It us about businesses like Carvana and Vroom which have no traditional brick-and-mortar high-visibility stores. . I have been writing for decades about what I call dispersion. That is the ability of businesses to move to cheaper locations like the suburbs or exurbs or the middle of nowhere. . The event that triggered that to me was Citicorp moving their credit card operations our of NYC to SD. That was enabled by satellite communications which and toll-free phone service which made SD equal to NYC in...

But I just read the list of BLM stuff the NFL is going to do this season. I think I will skip the NFL. If you also are not interested in that garbage, I urge you to skip it. . Rioters have gotten the attention of the NFL owners It is time that viewers also get their attention, by not viewing. If they want to cultivate BLM viewers, let them pay the price for focusing on such a tiny market segment and spitting in the face of the rest of the market. The NFL teams are worth billions. But if...

I now have all the Glock magazines I wanted. Actually, I went over by three. At the end, I was getting on various online stores’s waiting lists and lost track because many had rationing limits like three per customer. Lessons learned: • Buy only Glock OEMs or Magpul, no Promags. I could not get more than 4 rounds into a 10-round Promag. • I could have and did buy all 40 from Hardtofindmags.net, but after the first five, they sent me 35 Promags instead of Glock OEMs or Magpuls. I later got 10 Glock OEMs from that same suppler at...

More home-defense thoughts: . An empty magazine is a paperweight. So is a semiautomatic weapon with an empty magazine or no magazine. . Seems to me all your magazines need to be FULL starting the day they arrive in your mailbox. They are useless until they contain bullets. You do not need to have a magazine in your weapon when there is no threat. Indeed, that may be illegal and is ill-advised for safety purposes generally. . When a threat arises, you can slap a magazine in fast. Filling empty magazines is NOT fast. It is excruciatingly slow if you...