Making Me Look Good, By Comparison
A bunch of funny DIY Fails.
A bunch of funny DIY Fails.
A fine collection on pics of celebrities, before they were famous.
I anticipate Donald Trump will emerge with a few more years doing a job he’s not excited to do, and will find a way to delegate the day to day job to his son.I say this, not because he’ll actually accrue more votes in a …
People are lousy at risk assessment. There are whole industries based on this. (Gambling, sure. But also insurance, time shares, several categories of banks…) And in a moment of self pity, I realized that taking too few risks has probably held me back in my …
Wondering, this morning, what you’d want to do to take care of yourself if we had a prolonged deflationary period. My best guesses: If you were having a tough time, financially, before…and if you don’t have the ability to produce food (farming land)…then you’d want …
While we don’t know what the long-term consequences of Covid-19 are, after you recover, and while we don’t have a vaccine, yet…we are learning more, every day. For example, if you’re infected, having healthy levels of vitamin D may help you avoid a cytokine storm, …
I’m a sucker for short lists of wisdom. This one looks decent.
Several philosophical breadcrumb journeys have brought me back to the Reinhold Niebuhr. And I’m finding that I either agree with, or wish I could agree with him, on a few topics. MLK’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail” mentions Niebuhr’s influence on MLK, and transitively, on the …
Watching the beginning of “Charlie Says” (about the girls in Charlie Manson’s “family”) reminded me of a documentary I saw in high school. It was all about an anguished family’s efforts to deprogram their adult sibling/child from Reverend Moon’s cult. I remember discussing what it …