New Years at The Sea Gull 1975

New Years at The Sea Gull 1975

The post below was transcribed from My Bag by Joe Fitzpatrick published in the Monterey Peninsula Herald on Friday, January 10, 1975.   Mendocino in the 1970s was a different place than it is today.  Things moved at a slower pace.  The article describes accurately but...
New Years 2017 Napkin Art Special

New Years 2017 Napkin Art Special

[click on blue links for further information]     First, a few facts about New Years: The date of New Year’s Day seems so fundamental that it’s almost as though nature ordained it. But New Year’s Day is a civil event. Its date isn’t precisely fixed by any...
The New Academic Scribblers

The New Academic Scribblers

 When I studied economics (a lifetime ago), I actually read The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money by John Maynard Keynes. Keynes’ theories have dominated economics ever since. Yes, there have been many competitors and new iterations of...
The New Everyman

The New Everyman

 “AI is the elevator, thinking is taking the stairs.”   Rhett Allain, Medium Nearly six years ago I posted Pandora Box Complex where I took exception to some modern Luddites. Kurt Vonnegut defines a Luddite as “a person who hates newfangled contraptions.”...