Platitude Season

Posted on August 31, 2020August 24, 2020 by Simon

It is the season when platitudes substitute for policy. I’ve written about it before but it bears repeating: someone is speaking in platitudes if you can’t imagine a normal human adult bel... Read More

History Repeats

Posted on August 24, 2020July 30, 2020 by Simon

“People are always more willing to expand governmental services than to pay for them.” Will Durant writing about a tax revolt in China about 300CE in The Story of Civilization Volume One... Read More

Mega-Corporations

Posted on August 12, 2020July 26, 2020 by Simon

Can Mega-Corporations be controlled? How? Is it necessary? Then why aren’t you thinking more about the question? Photo is a perspective deception at Balanced Rock. Companies like Apple, Amazon, ... Read More

Teach or Rule

Posted on August 11, 2020July 26, 2020 by Simon

“The itch to teach is the itch to rule. Scratch one and you will find the other.” Will Durant in The Story of Civilization Volume One... Read More

Another Good Idea Gone Bad

Posted on August 1, 2020August 1, 2020 by Simon

The photo above shows a part of the Panorama Trail in Yosemite National Park. Sometime in the first half of the 20th Century the trail was covered with a few inches of asphalted like it was a small ro... Read More

Tipping Statues

Posted on July 30, 2020July 3, 2020 by Simon

In 2017 I advocated removing this statue of Judge Roger Taney from the Capital building in Maryland. I haven’t changed my mind. But the recent flurry of “tear down this or that statue. Gav... Read More

Capital

Posted on July 27, 2020July 3, 2020 by Simon

“Capital will go where it is wanted and stay where it is well treated.” Walter Wriston in The Twilight of Sovereignty page 61 Photo is of Zimbabwe’s inflated currency back in 2006. C... Read More

Trade

Posted on July 20, 2020July 3, 2020 by Simon

The last few months aside the rules for trade, migration and travel are the best they have ever been. Walter Wriston wrote The Twilight of Sovereignty in 1992 and predicted that what the state was abl... Read More

Guilty

Posted on July 7, 2020July 3, 2020 by Simon

“Not every crime leads back to the suspect you already disliked.“ Photo was taken with my old iPhone 7 on my 2018 trip down the Grand Canyon with Bob K. Western River Expeditions is highly... Read More

Equality

Posted on July 4, 2020July 1, 2020 by Simon

“Though people cannot be equal, their access to education and opportunity can be made more nearly equal.” From The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant (1968, Simon & Schuster) page 79 ... Read More

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Simon Burrow

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