UberThoughts USA

Friday, June 27, 2025

Obrigado, Amigos Brasileiros!

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Obviously I don't write in Portuguese, and as you might guess after reading the last 1,100 or so of these pieces, that's because I d...
Friday, June 20, 2025

When the War is Actually Over

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As I write this, missiles are being exchanged between Iran and Israel, a situation which, despite the lack of ground troops involvement, con...
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Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Fluffy at the Vanguard

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Gabriel Iglesias, as we all know, is a (quite) portly Mexican-American comedian, certainly among the most popular stand-up comics of any gen...
Wednesday, June 4, 2025

Fire Extinguishers, Fives of Clubs, and Five-Irons

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The latest kerfuffle in the whole California high school athletics drama took place, not over a boy pretending to be a girl and walking away...
Monday, May 5, 2025

Daylight Savings -- Part Two

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I hope you got to read the "part one" of this discussion from last December -- if not, here is the link so you can get the idea of...
Wednesday, April 23, 2025

Sinterklaas Kapoentje, Leg Wat in Mijn Schoentje

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It may be a bit surprising to some readers of this site that UberThoughtsUSA has a rather wide readership; "wide" meaning "ar...
Wednesday, April 9, 2025

My 201(k) and Why I'm OK

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If you have been thoughtfully saving an adequate portion of your income by using the various pretax instruments available to Americans -- th...
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Monday, March 10, 2025

Mr. Trump's Own BCECs

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The name of our late, esteemed president, Ronald Reagan, is called to the fore often when discussions of his handling of the issues of his d...
Tuesday, February 25, 2025

To My Singaporean Friends

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Just a quick note today ... I am so blessed to have noticed a huge surge in readership in Singapore this week.  There has always been a fair...
Monday, January 27, 2025

Maybe Tips Aren't the Priority

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I am, of course, a Trump supporter, and so theoretically I support most of what he advocates, and most of what he proposes as solutions to t...
Monday, January 20, 2025

You're Never Fooling Us Again

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A decade ago, the former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, was desperately trying to avoid having people read the draft bill that would im...
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Monday, December 2, 2024

Daylight Savings Time Reimagined

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A few weeks back, we in almost all of America said goodbye to the 2024 iteration of Daylight Savings Time, that curious artifact of governme...
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Friday, November 8, 2024

Saying the Quiet Part about Kamala Quietly

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I believe that after the election Tuesday, the Wednesday morning episode of The View may have been its highest-rated one ever.  I know my Be...
Friday, October 4, 2024

What's the Perfect Climate?

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Surprisingly, this late in the 2024 campaign, the issue of global warming (dba "climate change"), has been effectively a no-show i...
Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Election Security? I'm Still Worried

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It is only three months until the 2024 general election.  I am still worried about the voting process, and I don't think it is paranoia....
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Well, THAT Was a Lot of Fun!

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Regular readers of this column who know I play golf may recall almost four years ago when I surprisingly shot a nine-hole score of 33 and do...
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Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton had written a daily piece for this site for four years, and now adds an occasional "visiting column." A graduate of M.I.T. with a degree in biology, he has also attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Boston Conservatory of Music -- a fine example of his combined inability to do one thing well, or the diversity of his interests, whatever you would like to infer. He is also a four-time international champion in barbershop singing as well as doing historical research on early quartet champions, and was a well-known performer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1970s. He has performed the National Anthem for MLB games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Memorial Stadium and whatever the White Sox stadium is called this week. He does have an actual profession, too, consulting to the defense contracting community for many years. He routinely answers email at bsutton@alum.mit.edu or on Twitter (@rmosutton) and is happy to hear from readers . . . "UberThoughtsUSA" reflects the "other" meaning of the German word "über" -- "in regard to." The posts here, every weekday might, on a given day, be in regard to -- "über" -- almost anything.
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