“Well-intended plans often have unintended side effects.” Public art in Bordeaux. An example of the a well intended plan was sending Covid money to the public and to businesses. The uninte...Read More
The use of Tap and Pay in the UK particularly and Europe in general is far ahead of its usage in the USA. The implication of doing transactions entirely without money are enormous. It make things like...Read More
“There are no solutions; there are only tradeoffs.” Thomas Sowell, American Economist Photo is from Green Park in London looking north from Buckingham Palace....Read More
“A tied goat doesn’t know how a loose goat feels.” Uncle Bill via Gene B That is me on the left in the stovepipe hat. I’m posing with the Lincoln family at the Lincoln Museum in Springfiel...Read More
A search of my blog site shows that I have never bothered to make a post about abortion directly. But I have addressed it obliquely and after the Supreme Court overturned Roe vs Wade i wanted to put i...Read More
American exceptionalism was noted as far back as Alexis de Tocqueville in the early 19th Century. It was often assumed that it meant that America was better than other countries but it really meant th...Read More
Written by Fred Anderson. This is a book about the war that the British and the French fought about North America among other things. Most of what I learned about it was about the important role that ...Read More