“Buy American” as a national policy is a really bad idea. It was a bad idea when President Trump used it to start trade wars and it was a bad idea when President Biden wrote it into his in...Read More
“When something is shared by everyone, it usually gets ruined by the worst-behaved of us.” This is the “fallacy of the commons” written differently. It is why socialism and communism a...Read More
A gift with conditions is not a gift. It is a purchase. The Inukshuk in this photo was built of river smoothed stones in the Merced River near Wawona in Yosemite. No glue is used in the construction o...Read More
Paradoxically and uncomfortably I find myself favoring tanks for peace. The photo is my most recent Inukshuk. I found the the river smoothed torso stone on the approach trail to Piestewa Peak. It is a...Read More
Which do you think costs more per pound a commercial airplane or a smart phone. Take a guess before you scroll down. To figure this out roughly you have to know how much each of them weighs and how mu...Read More
Eating the moon on Piestewa Peak. Photo credit Mark V. My blog is nearing twenty years old with more than 4000 posts. I really not keeping track. It has evolved a lot over the years and the environmen...Read More
“Have a teamwork attitude about everything.” Thank you to Oscar Guerrero for this one and for the engraved bowl with some of the quotes he attributed to me and found memorable. Ten words o...Read More
“Helping others is the best way to ensure your survival.“ Every day until the end of the year I am going to post a favorite maxim. My constraint is that the maxim will have ten words or le...Read More
“The Apple of My Eye” was originally used in English and perhaps Hebrew to refer to the pupil of the eye. Sometime in the late middle ages it began to mean something or someone that one va...Read More