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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.
Road Tripping To World Peace: Interlude II — Alexander von Humboldt
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Traveler, your footprints by Antonio Machado Translators Mary G. Berg and Dennis Maloney Traveler, your footprints are the only road, nothing else. Traveler, there is no road; you make your own...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Interlude I
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Railway Travel. A journey in a railway train makes me sentimental. If I enter the compartment a robust-minded, cheerful youth, fresh and whistling from a walk by the sea, yet, as soon as I am settled down in one...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part I—for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11GYvfYjyV0 Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know...
Political Antinomians
Snopes.com [Click on BLUE links for articles, sources, and more information] “There is only one heresy and that is Antinomianism.” John “Rabbi” Duncan In Christian theology, an antinomian is a person who believes the moral law is of no use or...
Coincidence Or Business As Usual
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] They’re back in the news again. All three. At the same time. Oliver North soon “to be the NRA’s new president”, Iran, Donald Trump Says U.S. Will No Longer Abide by Nuclear Agreement, and Daniel...
The Eyes Have It
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] At the library, Sandman eased himself into a chair, booted up one of the computers and showed him how to access the files of individuals the Securities and Exchange Commission kept on its website as...
The Tragedy of Maxim Gorky: What It Means For Us Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? Mark 8:36 "The aim of literature is to help man to understand himself, to strengthen the trust in...
Art Science Business
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] The business of America is business Calvin Coolidge “We didn’t elect a saint.” I’m so tired of the religious right dragging out this sorry explanation for their unwavering support of our...
A Doodle A Day
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information} “You see,” said Thurber sadly, “that’s the way life goes. I write stories with the utmost care, rewriting every one from three to 10 times. I have written so many of them for the New...
Why Does “The Bad” Drive Out “The Good”?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Have you ever wondered why the date you found on that online dating service wasn’t what you expected? Or why the used car you bought turned out to be an old junker? Or why the stock market crashed...
Cat Fight
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Government shutdowns are not a new thing. Gary Evans over at Global Macro Monitor recently provided an effective short summary with this graph. It is interesting to observe that the...
Addicted to Trompudo
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Many families have a relative they look up to, a personality known widely in a local area, nationally or internationally. For me it was my Great Uncle Lewis Foster, my grandmother’s brother. He was...