American Aristocracy
“An open fluid elite based on merit and money, not on birth and breeding.” Alexander Hamilton From...
Tag: Travel
Words Seldom Seen: Ad hominem
Ad hominem Adjective: An argument directed against a person rather than the position they are...
Words Seldom Seen: Salient
Salient Adjective: Prominent, conspicuous or striking. Military: a projection in the battle line. Example:...
Keeping Peace
"An overwhelming show of force often obviates the need to employ it." Alexander Hamilton From Alexander...
Words Getting More Common: Portal
Portal For most of my life "portals" were a science fiction mechanism for getting from one state to another....
Wine Three
"The best way to drink wine is in the way you most enjoy it." Variously attributed. From The Little Book of...
Wine One
"Wine is sunlight held together by water." Galileo Galilei From The Little Book of Wine. At Hanukkah we have...
Traffic
"When you are in traffic, you are also traffic." In the immortal words of President Obama: "We are the people...
Two Dogs and Happiness
Bruno and Missy wish you a Happy...
Failure
"The greater the complexity of a system, the more likely that system is to fail." David Galland, The Rational...
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