Who or what we become in life is influenced by a bunch of factors that can be boiled down to genetics and environment. Genetically, both my parents were PhD scientists. As a geneticist, I can tell you that there are no genes known to be responsible for “science.” But of course, my home environment skewed […]
The best way to interpret social media posts from President-elect Donald Trump is through the lens of professional wrestling. Prof. Heather uses such to make a point. It is not reality as much as showmanship. Whatever happened to Junkyard Dog, the Hart Foundation, etc,? I ran into the Hart Foundation in the Detroit Airport. It […]
All lies and jestStill a man hears what he wants to hearAnd disregards the rest . . . So what does the public think or believe today about grocery prices? Or are they scared to death after hearing Trumps plans on how to cut excessive spending. Which is the result of cutting taxes due to […]
I finished Every Valley: The desperate lives and troubled times that made Handel’s Messiah by Charles King on Christmas Eve. It somehow seemed fitting to read this book in this season, although the oratorio Messiah was originally performed at Easter. I visited Handel’s birthplace in Halle three times in the 1990s, I’ve toured the Handel […]
A More Democratic Economy A 1787 newly minted United States of America wasn’t far removed from an old Europe where not so long before all property belonged to the crown or state; where only a hundred years or so earlier John Locke had first defended the idea of private property at a time when most […]
Some history on Senator Joe Manchin III. He has never met a lump of coal he did not like. There is money in the almost black gold. Twenty years of supplying the Grant Town power plant in West Virgina with low-grade coal mixed with rock and clay known as “gob.” And stymieing any interest in […]
“Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for secretary of defense, has repeatedly criticized policies allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military, calling them part of a “Marxist” agenda to prioritize social justice over combat readiness.” LOL! I’m absolutely confident that Hegseth hasn’t read a word of Marx or Marxist economics. I’m equally […]
Excellent recital on Russia by “Infidel at Infidel753“ Very often, those who understand an empire best are those who are subjugated by its power, or until recently were so. A slave has a strong incentive to know the master’s whims and cruelties and strengths and weaknesses; he may well suffer greatly if he misjudges those […]
– by New Deal democrat No economic news again today. Tomorrow we will get the CPI report for November. As to which, I have read a few posts in which the claim is made that inflation, especially core inflation, is picking up again. It certainly could happen, but in my opinion the evidence for such a […]
I’m old enough to remember Russia as the mother country to the Soviet Union. While the USSR was never a world-class economic power, it did punch above its weight as a military power under Stalin and for a couple decades after. Russia under Putin has been described as a gas station with an Army. Its […]