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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.
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...
Goldilocks
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Just then, Goldilocks woke up and saw the three bears. She screamed, "Help!" And she jumped up and ran out of the room. Goldilocks ran down the stairs, opened the door, and ran away into the...
Eating the Seed Corn
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Wise old farmers have long had a saying: Don't eat your seed corn. In simple terms, it means that every seed that comes through your hands has the potential to either be eaten or planted for next...
Smoking
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] My mother and grandmother smoked their cigarettes in a little room off the kitchen we called the back porch. In the company of a washing machine, a dryer, a chest freezer, and a broom closet they sat at...
A Modest Proposal For Today
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Based on: A Modest Proposal For Preventing the Children of Poor People in Ireland, from Being a Burden on Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them Beneficial to the Publick by Jonathan Swift ...
The Attack of the Fifty Foot Baby
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you. For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night. For when they shall say,...
The Rich Get Richer
[Click on BLUE links for sources and further information] Billionaire Michael Bloomberg, erstwhile Republican now Independent, has an article out today This Tax Bill Is A Trillion-Dollar Blunder. It’s a “must-read” for anyone who cares about our...
Udder Nonsense
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] If you have read any of the posts on this site, you must be aware that Napkin Art adds an interesting historical and artistic dimension and adds immensely to the delight factor, if any is to be...