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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.
Are You Ready For Some Football?
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] I still remember when the only man I ever called Coach, Gregg LeMaster, arrived in my hometown to coach football at the local high school. I remember vividly because my older brother, Errol, interviewed...
Final Trompudo Napkin Art
This is our fourth and final post of "Trompudo Napkin Art," a whimsical project by TITM to make connections between the Sea Gull Cellar Bar Napkin Art produced in the 70s and 80s and the current mad-king president. TITM is working on a Gallery of Napkin Art....
Bonehead Economics Reboot
[Click BLUE links for sources and information] A year and a half ago TITM posted: Bonehead Economics: Things to Know in the Era of Trompudo. Today, once again, the lack of clear thinking is leading us down a problematic road. The Nobel economist, Joseph...
Trompudo Napkin Art – 3
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] This is our third post in our Trompudo Napkin Art series. Past posts can be found HERE and HERE Trompudo has girl trouble. Trompudo told Iran it risked consequences "the like...
The Art of the Lie
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth. Joseph Goebbels It’s called the “illusion of truth” and it is a powerful tool for authoritarian leaders, advertisers, and all types of...
Road Tripping Toward World Peace: Part II – for Anthony Bourdain
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] Lesley Stahl: Have you seen the really bad schools? Maybe try to figure out what they're doing? Betsy DeVos: I have not-- I have not-- I have not intentionally visited schools that are underperforming.Lesley Stahl:...
Trompudo Napkin Art – 2
[Click on BLUE links for sources and information] This is our second post in our Trompudo Napkin Art series ... I suppose insulting the Queen made you feel like a man. Wearing a crown requires sacrifices beyond your ability Sir Donald. (I'm not...
Trompudo Napkin Art – 1
[Click on BLUE links for sources and more information] Why do I call our President Trompudo? Trompudo is a Spanish slang word implying a man with thick lips, blubber lips, grouchy, snobbish, piggish, a man who lies or tells tall tales (think Pinocchio),...
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...
Summertime
It has been said that bad things come in threes. It’s an old wives tale thoroughly debunked by the mathematician John Allen Paulos, but you’ll never get the conspiracy theorists to disbelieve it especially in the current political atmosphere. I can...