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…
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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…
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…
Barack Obama on 60 Minutes told us that he wants to fix the country, that he will take actions to do so and, if it they don’t work, he will find policies…
The sheer silliness of the stranglehold religion has upon government is represented by the dispute that has arisen over Barack Obama’s decision to select pastor-bigot Rick Warren of the Saddleback…
In 1992, my dear friend, Sue, and I flew into then Bombay (now Mumbai) from London on December 6, for a few days before taking ship to other Indian ports…