The Harvest
All farmers know that it is easy in the spring to predict a bumper crop. And in the summer as the fields grow to...
A Short History of Medicine
"Doctor, I have an ear ache." 2000 B.C. - "Here, eat this root." 1000 B.C. - "That root is heathen, say...
September 6, 2012 Maxim
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever. Germaine...
Simon Says Postcards 09/05/2012
The scariest fact I learned in Berlin was that it only took the Nazi's 12 years (1933 - 1945)...
The Dead Horse Theory
The Dead Horse Theory of Bureaucracy The tribal wisdom of the US Plains Indians, passed on from generation to...
The La-Z-Boy of Self-regard
Used in a sentence: "Ah, you think, Settling comfortably into the La-Z-Boy of self-regard, this is a matter with...
Simon Says Postcards 8/28/2102
Circa 1200 in Rothenburg they passed a compulsory tax to build city walls. This was followed by taxes to have...
SweaterHenge
We (the royal we, since it is mostly me) build an occasional henge as installation art. Henges are a great photo-op...
August 23, 2012 Maxim
"Economic Nationalism is Racism" Harry Binswanger in Forbes Magazine 8/20/2012 "People their products and their...
Simon Says Postcards 8/21/2012
"No matter what happens, there's always someone who knew it would." Lonny Starr Swiss cow...
