Politics Friday Politics SimonSeptember 21, 20121 I promise to only do politics once a week and never on Facebook (almost) My bumper sticker contribution: My...
Politics The Harvest SimonSeptember 10, 20120 All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
Politics The Dead Horse Theory SimonAugust 30, 20120 The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to...
Maxims Boris Johnson SimonAugust 20, 20120 "My policy on cake is having it and eating it." Boris Johnson Lord Mayor of London and Political Hero of the...
Politics The Power of the Irrational SimonAugust 19, 20120 "The world for the most part is not run by reason. The power of the irrational is formidable." Paul Johnson...
Politics Early Government SimonAugust 1, 20120 In Rothenburg, Bavaria we were surrounded by evidence of the beginnings of the city state. I wrote the other day...
Nanny State Medieval Walls and Socialized Medicine SimonJuly 30, 20121 About 1200 in Rothenburg, Bavaria (pronounced rotenberg) in order to build a city wall they levied a tax on all of the...
Politics Why Obama Will Lose in November SimonJune 22, 20123 So here is the math. Romney will probably get roughly the same number of votes as John McCain did in 2008 but he will...
Politics Power to the ……. SimonJune 4, 20120 If you give the State the power to do something for you, you give it an exact equivalent power to do something to...
Politics You Can’t Fake the Harvest SimonMay 21, 20120 All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields...