We ain’t done yet. If we manage to avoid being swept away by an economic tsunami (Part 1) of our own making, or by a nuclear holocaust (Part Deux), much…
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# Journal Entry
Randomly rational thoughts on Economics and the fate of the nation Following all the excitement and glitter and glamour of the election have you noticed how suddenly boring politics in…
On why the Republicans will not cooperate to save the economy, but need to make Obama fail, and the country be damned. In his Lincoln’s birthday address in Springfield, Illinois…
Over 25 years of guiding and escorting tours of Americans to foreign countries on four continents I occasionally heard my fellow countrymen expression sentiments about the places we visited that…
My old friend, Danny, much more techno-savvy than I will ever be, suggested recently that I might want to consider buying a Kindle, the digital book reader that it sold…
Elsewhere in these pages I have discussed the subject of systems and how they go bad. (See Archives No. 41.7: Systems and Traditions) In this piece I would like to…
I have made much in these pages of the claim that religious belief is based on nothing but a need to fill in the unknowns of life with something, a…
In Roman times the legions used to bring along with them a soothsayer who would sacrifice some unlucky chicken or other animal and “read” the auspices in their entrails to…
I saw Obama actually give George Bush a hug a couple of times, once after his speech, and again just before Bush got on the presidential chopper to leave the…
By way of some curious synaptic connection when, I first picked up this book, I had a reverie of a personal experience in the Chinese city of Xian many several…