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Great Horned Owl
At three o’clock in the morning a great horned owl hooted outside my bedroom window. Moonlight laughed in the forest. The rain had stopped and the weather had cleared up and I had to get up to pee but I didn’t want to leave my warm bed. I felt like that owl who had...
You Break It You Own it
With the news from Venezuela this morning (January 3rd, 2026) we refer you to our good friend over at Global Macro Monitor. The crib notes for those who won't or can't read this important post in all its detail are pasted below. For the entire article click on this...
Trump’s Great Leap Backward
There is a strange similarity of thinking between Trump’s tariff-driven bid to “restore” U.S. manufacturing and Mao Zedong’s ill-fated Great Leap Forward (1958-62). They do not share an ideology but a method: both are top-down attempts to force economic reality to...
Please Please Please Give Me Money
For only 16 cents a day, less than the cost of one cup of coffee per month, yada, yada, yada … you can support ? They’re out there, the Christmas hucksters, appealing to your guilty heart, yes guilty, you know you’ve sinned and you want to atone painlessly so you...
Why I Cancelled Social Media
I’ve had a number of friends say they miss me on social media. But, when I ask if they’ve read my blog, my novel or my book,of short stories, the answer is often “it’s on my list.” I can’t help but think of the essay Literature and Life by Mario Vargas Llosa.It...
A Novel For Our Times
“Si tuviera que salvar del fuego una sola de las novelas que he escrito, salvaría esta.”(“If I had to save from the fire just one of the novels I have written, I would save this one.”) — Mario Vargas Llosa referring to Conversación en La Catedral. In his novel,...
The Ordinary Business Of Life
In my 1890 edition of Alfred Marshall’s Principles of Economics, the great economist defines economics as “a study of man’s actions in the ordinary business of life.” Too often we only see the highlights: the pivotal conversations, the dramatic turns, the “act...
Billionaire
“Love you all, but there's a few people in here that have a lot more money than me. If you are a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?” Billie Eilish, after receiving the Music Innovator Award. At the ceremony, Stephen Colbert announced that Eilish donated $11.5...
In Praise Of Idleness
Bertrand Russell wrote his essay on the benefits of doing nothing in 1932 during the Great Depression which destroyed the jobs and lives of millions. You can read the essay at this LINK or scroll down to the bottom of this post and listen to it.Russell argues that...
Politics and Markets 3
If capitalism undermines democracy (Lindblom, see Politics and Markets 1) and democracy undermines capitalism (Schumpeter, see Politics and Markets 2) then how can we make them compatible?That is the question we face today: authoritarian capitalism, democratic...
Alphabetical Index Of Posts
[Click on BLUE links to access any blog from the list]Napkin Art Gallery LINKBlog Posts in Alphabetical Order 4 Reviews For Behind The Locked Door86’dA Bit of An ItchA Dog in the FightA Doodle A DayA Few Comments About the Old Sea Gull Cellar BarA Few Things I Learned...
Politics and Markets 2
In Politics and Markets 1, using Charles Lindblom’s model, I discussed how capitalism can undermine democracy. Let’s turn this around and look at how democracy can undermine capitalism.The influential economist Joseph Schumpeter finished his career at Harvard...