Measuring America in Our Dumbfoundedness
Struck dumb with astonishment and surprise is the definition and, at the moment, Kyle Rittenhouse is the subject to > Read moreThe Greek Is Writing Again
We adore and venerate the ancient Greeks; Socrates, Plato and Aristotle, but modern Greeks are too often pains in the > Read moreConsecutive Headlines
I came across these two headlines, one after the other, on my Google News aggregator. Somehow, steeled as I am to the > Read moreWhy Do We Fail to Invest?
There are bunches of reasons, many of which gave us the consumer economy that has been so devastating to our productive > Read moreNeil Irwin at the NYTimes Is Confused
He muses, “Workers have seized the upper hand in the labor market, attaining the largest raises in decades and quitting > Read more“I’m Not a Member of any Organized Political Party”
“I’m a Democrat.” Those words were uttered almost exactly a century ago by cowboy humorist Will Rogers and they are as > Read moreJudge Wilson Never Saw a Purple Cow
He never hoped to see one But in this ruling anyhow He’ rather see than be one With a proper nod toward poet Gelett > Read moreThings That Make No Sense to Me
Well, less and less actually makes sense to me these days, but here’s the nonsense du jour. Yesterday I broke my > Read moreTax the Rich Is a Poor Man’s Solution
It’s a poor solution as well. The reason we get a knee-jerk reaction to ‘make the bastards pay’ is because we haven’t > Read more
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