Billionaires
There are between 500 and 1000 billionaires in the...
Category: Politics
The Future
“Any prediction about the future is uncertain.” Hans Rosling in Factfulness (Highly...
Work
Well That Didn’t Work An Abbreviated History of Government...
Letterboxes
The US Post Office is the Amtrak of our children’s generation. It has outlived its usefulness but, because of...
Platitude Season
It is the season when platitudes substitute for policy. I've written about it before but it bears repeating:...
History Repeats
“People are always more willing to expand governmental services than to pay for them.” Will Durant writing...
Mega-Corporations
Can Mega-Corporations be controlled? How? Is it necessary? Then why aren't you thinking more about the...
Teach or Rule
"The itch to teach is the itch to rule. Scratch one and you will find the other." Will Durant in The Story of...
Another Good Idea Gone Bad
The photo above shows a part of the Panorama Trail in Yosemite National Park. Sometime in the first half of the...
Tipping Statues
In 2017 I advocated removing this statue of Judge Roger Taney from the Capital building in Maryland. I haven't...
