Before They Were Famous
A fine collection on pics of celebrities, before they were famous.
Thoughts on the Presidential Election
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 …
If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there
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 …
Sugar We’re Going Down
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 …
It’s a Trap!
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, …
Promise Me, Son, Not To Do The Things I’ve Done
I’m a sucker for short lists of wisdom. This one looks decent.
Serenity Now!
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 …
Mama Weer All Crazee Now
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 …
not with a bang but a whimper
There’s sure a lot to say about the novel coronavirus and about our healthcare system and the response and epidemiology and education and sports and politics and cultural views on food and medicine. I’d planned to write about most of those, and maybe I still …
Armchair Macroeconomics
Economics is so multivariate, so complex, that propagandists can probably find data to support whatever conclusion they want to state. I mean, they may not be able to do so in a way that will convince economists. But they will be able to convince the …