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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.
Guest Post: Origami Place by Hayden Jones
Origami Placeby Hayden Jones In the origami place,origami pelicans soar through the sky.In the origami place,stars shine bright.In the origami place,origami boats sail through the ocean.In the origami place,you can stop and smell the origami tulips.In the origami...
The Art of the Deal
It was in December of 1972 that I closed the deal to buy the Sea Gull restaurant in Mendocino from Martin and Marlene Hall. That was 47 years ago. Martin has left us but I’m still close to Marlene. Many of my friends are from those wonderful years still fresh in...
“Doveryai no Proveryai” — Trust, but Verify
Trust but verify. How do you trust when nothing but falsehoods come out of a man’s mouth? I’d like to know. How do you verify when malfeasance abounds in such colossal terms that it boggles the mind? The era of “big data” is also the era of “leaks”. Where...
Arguing With Myself
The spiritual view is that man is divine in origin with an immortal soul. The materialist view is that man is an evanescent accident with no moral nature except that created in him by his experience and culture. As mortal human beings, we have no way o’ knowing which...
Ignorance, Apathy and More
As the joke goes: Q: What is the difference between ignorance and apathy? A: I don’t know and I don’t care. What are we to make of this in today’s political environment? The First Lady wears a jacket that conspicuously says: “I don’t...
Pandora Box Complex
I have been called a Luddite. I welcome it. Do you know what a Luddite is? A person who hates newfangled contraptions… Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something....
One Big Happy Family
All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Tolstoy, Anna Karenina You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look...
Life’s Pleasant Surprises
These are random thoughts, silly meaningless phrases, ideas, definitions, quotes, etc. Does it matter where they come from? I cite sources when I can. The soul, whatever that is, seems to need these interstices, room to stretch, degrees of freedom, mental doodles...
Pop Goes the Weasel
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Disclosure: I have no particular insight into the financial markets. In this I am in good company (just read the financial press for a battery of conflicting reports). Just a couple of weeks ago the famous bond...
Do We Live In An Artificial World
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information]I’m not a Christian at least in any formal way but I do read the Bible. In this I agree with Christopher Hitchens (RIP)."A culture that does not possess this common store of image and allegory will be a perilously thin...
Alien
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Long, long ago there were people who listened to radio shows. This was before television created the way for cellphones and when the earth was still inhabitable. Even before this time, before the radio was in...
The Lowly Frog
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] For a long time the frogs went on talking, “It’s eerie here! It’s eerie here!” and the bullfrog, after a meditative silence, “I know! I know!” Then the nervous frog again, “It’s eerie here—it’s eerie.” The...