Reparations for Slavery Reparation hearings have started again in Washington DC and I think that it is something we should think about. It seems to me that reparations should be paid to the people who...Read More
The instincts and attitudes of a septuagenarian rarely change much. In your 40’s your eyes go bad, in your 60’s your hearing goes bad and in your 70’s your ability to change vanishes...Read More
Who will win the trade war between the US and China. I explored data from the markets and it looks like Chinese markets are a lot more concerned than US markets. The orange line is the S&P 500 and...Read More
De Gaulle by Julian Jackson Having read quite a few histories of the 20th Century including a run of Winston Churchill books in 2018 I was pleased to hear about Jackson’s De Gaulle biography. It...Read More
Only one of my friends has made an argument that it was okay to dismiss the charges against Mr Smollett. He argues that there is precedent for dismissing minor felonies and that this crime was to a la...Read More
I wonder if there is the potential for a class action suit against Jussie Smollett? The class could be people who wear MAGA hats. Smollett clearly set out to harm the reputations of the class by claim...Read More
Smollett Noun: To be arrested, indicted by a Grand Jury and then have all charges dropped because of your connections and politics. Example: “Justice is blind unless someone has a smollett card ...Read More
Jussie Smollett is the Tonya Harding of this generation Her boyfriend hit her ice skating competitor in the knee with an iron pipe. She has been unpopular since. He faked a hate crime was indited by a...Read More
“I am, at the Fed level, libertarian; at the state level, Republican; at the local level, Democrat; and at the family and friends level, a socialist. Nassim Taleb from Skin in the Game To appl...Read More
The United States and other countries are acting quite firmly to try and effect regime change in Venezuela. Much more firmly than they are acting toward North Korea. Even though both governments are c...Read More