Book Review of “The Dictators Handbook by The One Handed Economist David Zetland. How can you resist a book with a title like this?! — and a subtitle of Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics?! Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith (B&S) published this book in 2011, but I only got around to it recently. The […]
Reading Prof. Heather Cox Richardson’s take on American history always reveals something I did not know. misunderstood, or what I wanted to know of about. There is a message here which I believe applies to the events occurring in the United States today. I subscribe to Prof. Heather’s Substack and find her words to be […]
Happy Thanksgiving to Angry Bear’s readers, writers, and family. Hope all is well by you.
Zelensky wrote on social media: ‘It’s important to not forget the main goal, to stop the Russian war and prevent it from breaking out again in the future. ‘That’s why we’re so carefully working on every point, on every step toward peace.‘ Trump had given Ukraine a Thursday deadline to respond to the proposal, which would require […]
Such a noble guy Donald Tru_p is. Where does the list start and end with what he has done? Does the word coward fit here somewhere? November 21, 2025 by Heather Cox Richardson Letters from an American Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelensky addressed the Ukrainian people today. The current moment, he said, is “one of the […]
I did not want to scare you so I downsized it. I believe this is actually supposed to the new penny to replace the old Lincoln pennies. However, it is labeled as a $1 dollar coin. Given the nature of the person, we can be sure the coin will be accepted for the value stated. […]
I see where the Philadelphia mint yesterday pressed the last penny. This holds a little nostalgic interest for me in that I collected pennies when I was a kid. Back then, there were three mints—Philadelphia, San Francisco and Denver—so a complete set for any given year meant getting pennies from each mint. The coins minted […]
The passing of Jim Watson, co-discoverer of DNA structure, got me thinking about the other great discoveries of the 20th century. Without consulting Google AI, I came up with these: General relativityPlate tectonicsABO histocompatibility blood typesPenicillinStructure of DNA Here’s what Google AI said: “ . . . the discovery of penicillin and other antibiotics, the […]
Reacting to a runaway, incompetent president, and a rogue political party backing him; people decided a different path to take. This occurred in California, New Jersey, Georgia, New York, Virginia, Maine, and Colorado. Mayors and Governors were on the ballot as well lunch programs. The present, some history, and how to turn the table. “What […]
I see where Jim Watson, famed for the Watson-Crick double helix structure of DNA, has died. Watson was certainly very smart by conventional metrics. He entered the University of Chicago on a scholarship at 15, graduated at 19 and earned a PhD in zoology at Indiana University three years later. He and Crick published the […]