Thought Provoking essay from the NY Times. Thanks goes to Betty Bowersox for sharing. NYTimes link We live in a big, diverse society. There are essentially two ways to maintain order and get things done in such a society — politics or some form of dictatorship. Either through compromise or brute force. Our founding fathers […]
Miscellaneous
President Trump’s State of the Union Address – “unemployment”
President Trump stated tonight (once again) in his State of the Union address that there are “94 million unemployed Americans”. Let’s take a few minutes to dissect that number to judge the validity of that statement. There are roughly 323 million people living in the United States. If there were 94 million people unemployed, that […]
Book collecting
Apparently, without my knowledge, someone took this hidden video when I was a teenager. [intense_video video_type=”youtube” video_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3J7II1bN1w&feature=youtu.be”]
Big Bang Theory…
I’ve never actually seen an episode of BBT [big bang theory – BFF Rick is a huge fan though], but based on this scene, maybe I should put it on the “to try” list. [intense_video video_type=”youtube” video_url=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-E9cYyaSRI”]
A note to my good friend “Sam”
Sam, Either this is a reminder, or maybe the first time I’ve shared this with you… Sometime, during the 2009-2011 “Great Recession”, I somehow came across a story you wrote for a magazine. It was either a sailing mag or a vacation mag. Either way, I enjoyed what you wrote, and, (here is the part […]
