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Essays on current affairs, business, investing, economics and politics can be found in this section. Think in the Morning has no particular incite into any of these areas. We write what we are inspired to write. Read at your own risk.
Cooking As Therapy
Google “cooking as therapy” and you will find 120 million results in half a second. Recently I’ve been reminded how important cooking has been for me over the years. How many of your best memories are related to food? I would imagine more than you realize when you...
Shaking Hands With Your Twin
Maybe he was a raving madman, a fool in search of harmony in a world turned upside down. Sometimes, however, magnificent thoughts could creep into the head of anyone, even a perfect fool.... From Behind The Locked Door There were three umpires discussing how they...
What’s Past Is Prologue
What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Ecclesiastes 1:9 Distraught would be the word I would use to describe my mood at the moment. I blog because it relaxes me and right now I need to be relaxed....
Tis Folly To Be Wise
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray, Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College Abiding in the midst of ignorance, thinking themselves wise and learned, fools go aimlessly hither and thither, like blind led by the blind. Katha...
Off The Bus
you’re either on the bus or off the bus Ken Kesey Back when I was in high school more than a half-century ago, I was chosen to participate in a contest sponsored by Bank of America. About twenty or so high school students...
A Look Back At The Trump Years Through The Eyes Of Napkin Artist Roy Hoggard
Roy Hoggard – July 13, 1937 – December 31, 2018To read about Roy, click on this link: The Genius of Roy Hoggard“As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the...
Cat Fight continued
We like to be entertained. We like surprise endings. We are amused by magic tricks and shows. Ordinary life is boring much of the time. These are some of the reasons we are susceptible to the conspiracy theories and untruths that have become even more prevalent...
Cat Fight
The news this morning is that Ted Cruz will lead a group of 11 Senators to oppose President Elect Joe Biden’s certification. Senator Cruz, known as Lucifer in the Flesh or more affectionately as the Lovechild of Joe McCarthy and Dracula, seems to be laying the...
California
“My favourite line in all of literature is Rudyard Kipling’s monkey: ‘My people are the wisest people in the jungle, my people have always said so.'” Joni Mitchell For the past few days I’ve been rereading Joan Didion. The White Album, Slouching Towards Bethlehem,...
The Phoenix Myth
History doesn’t repeat itself but it often rhymes. Mark Twain Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief...
Democracy Descending
I knew Nobel economist Kenneth Arrow slightly when I was an undergraduate student at Stanford. I was greatly impacted by his book Social Choice and Individual Values at the time and have referred back to it often. In simple terms one of his most famous theories...
How Happy Or Sad Will You Be When The Election Results Are In?
Impact bias, a cognitive bias, is the tendency to overestimate the intensity or the duration of future emotions and states of feeling. This overestimation can occur for both positive and negative feeling states. (Psychology Glossary) You’ve probably heard the...