Two weeks ago I wrote: “This is a dirty trick, transparently a dirty trick.” Nothing has happened that has changed my mind and much has happened that has confirmed my original instinct. I ...Read More
Last week after a delicious Erev Rosh Hashanah meal I made the offhand comment that among other things eating organic food starves poor people. One of the other men at the event took issue and questio...Read More
Be careful. The people who are predicting a Democrat landslide this November are the same ones who were predicted a landslide for Hillary Clinton in 2016. ...Read More
How do candidates for political office with obvious character flaws seem more real than bureaucrats with impeccable credentials? Nassim Taleb in Skin in the Game And, I might add, make such terrible a...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
“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
“The only way we have left to control suicide-terrorists would be precisely to convince them that blowing themselves up is not the worst-case scenario for them, nor the end scenario at all. Maki...Read More