Bureaucracy is a construction by which a person is conveniently separated from the consequences of his or her actions. Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...Read More
“You’re betraying your whole life if you don’t say what you think, and you don’t say it honestly and bluntly.” Charles Krauthammer 1950-2018 A life well lived....Read More
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 popular politician and Simon is perplexed....Read More
“Journalists worry considerably more about the opinion of other journalists than the judgment of their readers.” Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game...Read More
I’m often wrong and I was very wrong in August 2008 when I wrote: “We are well into the election season and I along with others was lamenting the length and cost of the process in the US. ...Read More
Howard Rotter Diving in the Philippines In 2014 while my good friend, Howard, was wasting away from the progressive horror of ALS we suddenly had the Ice Bucket Challenge. It raised more than $115 mil...Read More
Plastic has made poor peoples lives better. It has given them access to containers for liquid that they previously couldn’t afford. Let’s use buckets as an example....Read More
I Googled “Straws and Pollution” and on the first page of results there were a lot of ads and links that said roughly the same thing. This one was particularly egregious....Read More
This is not a simple story with a shockingly memorable video. It is a collection of facts. I want to persuade you to direct your environmental attention into actions that will have a real effect on th...Read More