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Look Homeward Angel and The 1918 Pandemic
Previously on Think in the MorningPale Horse, Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter’s Classic Story of the 1918 PandemicWilliam Maxwell’s They Came Like SwallowsThe 1918 Pandemic And Willa Cather’s One Of Ours Then, under the terrible light which fell directly and...
Here We Go Again
One of the first blogs I wrote concerned a philosophical conundrum that is also a political conundrum: The Trolley Problem and the Winter of our Discontent. The problem addressed is simple in theory but oh so difficult in practice. How should we deal with a policy...
Pale Horse, Pale Rider: Katherine Anne Porter’s Classic Story of the 1918 Pandemic
Death always leaves one singer to mourn. In 1918 Katherine Anne Porter was 28 years old working for the Rocky Mountain News in Denver Colorado. A young soldier lived in her boarding house while waiting to be deployed overseas. They became close and spent much of...
Have We Outgrown Democracy?
NOTE: To get the most out of this blog please click on the BLUE links for references and further information Previous Blogs with a similar theme:When To CompromiseCivility I’m not the first to notice that the political divide has been growing in America. Surveys by...
The Upside of the Coronavirus
Hundreds of thousands, maybe millions will likely get the coronavirus and tens of thousands, maybe many more, will die from it. How could there be any upside to this crisis? There may not be. Yet, the incurable optimism built into the human psyche shows that we...
Autarky
Autarky is the characteristic of self-sufficiency; the term usually applies to political states, societies or to their economic systems. Autarky exists whenever an entity survives or continues its activities without external assistance or international trade. ...
PANIC
Here we are again in a panic. The financial markets are reeling in response to the coronavirus, oil market disruptions and not least because stock prices were historically high relative to fundamentals. Near zero interest rates give the FED little room to...
The Oscars
The 92nd Oscars® will be held tonight (February 9th) at 5 p.m. and aired on ABC. Why does it matter? For me, it’s personal. My great uncle, Lewis R. Foster, won an Oscar in 1939 for the best original story, The Gentleman From Montana. His story, unpublished,...
Civility
“If you can’t disagree ardently with your colleagues about some issues of law and yet personally still be friends, get another job, for Pete’s sake,” Scalia once said of his friendships with colleagues. Former Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia quoted in: 9...
There Will Be Hell To Pay
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln Out and about and unable to write a lengthy blog, we at Think in the Morning choose to share our Sunday morning...
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...