Month: November 2006

I was participating in what some economists might consider the “free market” society when I heard the news on the radio.  I was out shopping.  My experience of going to the market, or bazaar has long been...

Cross posted at the front pages of ePluribus, My Left Wing and Pen and Sword. Also at Kos. The “best and brightest” of the U.S. military’s brain trust never fail to disappoint me. The Pentagon’s review of...

Like many, I grew up in an alcoholic home, then became one myself for many years. So my own children, now in their 40’s, also grew up in an alcoholic home, and one of them also became an addict.  We are among the...

Fortunately, I am not young and naive, otherwise I might be heartbroken to learn that one of my favorite actors is an out-and-out racist. Michael Richards, who played the beloved Kramer on Seinfeld, apparently lost it on stage....

If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein