Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her...
Author: Simon
Pets (Churchill Quote)
Chaplin "Dogs look up to you, cats look down on you. Give me a pig. He just looks you in the eye and treats you as an...
Charles Krauthammer RIP
"You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think, and you don’t say it honestly and...
Perplexed
In Russia today Stalin is the bad guy. The dead Tsar is a Saint. Lenin who killed the Tsar is still a hero. Putin is a...
Multi-lingual
"I speak all languages except Greek." "Oh. So do you speak Russian." "No. Russian is Greek to...
Vodka
Vodka doesn’t help you find the answer. But it does help you forgot the question. Wisdom from the vodka tasting on...
Tell Me
Don’t tell me what you “think,” just tell me what’s in your portfolio. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the...
Russia (Churchill Quote)
“Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Winston...
Plastic Recycling
I've written a series of evolving posts about Plastic Straws. Here are links to all of them in sequential order....
Speed Bumps
The Russian word for “speed bump” is: "lexhashchii politseiskii." It literally means “lying down...
