Shortly after recording Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding died in a plane crash on December 10, 1967. The song became the first posthumous number one record in chart history.Redding didn’t have the chance to experience the long, lazy nostalgia of old age, but the...

  When the President fired the Bureau of Labor Statistics commissioner on my birthday, it awakened some long dormant memories of my short time as a statistical economist.First, let me state what would be obvious to anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the BLS...

"When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything," G.K. Chesterton I had a good friend, a Christian, now sadly gone, who often referred to G.K. Chesterton when we discussed religion...

 "Alice laughed: "There's no use trying," she said; "one can't believe impossible things.""I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was younger, I always did it for half an hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible...

 If I could give one piece of advice about how to live life it would be to keep an open mind, to watch, listen and think carefully, to never stop learning, and to have the courage to form and give your opinions firmly but humbly.Have you ever wondered why you believe...

 Once the leader of the free world, the city on a hill with morals and standards that engendered respect and emulation, America has turned inward, insular, predatory and self-serving.What’s in it for me is the slogan of the New Republican Party (NRP), the Party of...

 "AI is the elevator, thinking is taking the stairs."   Rhett Allain, Medium Nearly six years ago I posted Pandora Box Complex where I took exception to some modern Luddites. Kurt Vonnegut defines a Luddite as “a person who hates newfangled contraptions.” Vonnegut is...

 With the Fourth of July nearly upon us, it’s time to revisit my favorite American patriot, Tom Paine. Paine is and always has been my favorite American since I first read about him in high school. He was friends with another hero of mine, the English poet William...

 I’m going to propose a theory, without proof, about how the world works. My theory is based on my observations, feelings, and some deep and not so deep thinking. It’s also based on some ideas I’ve borrowed from other people, some whom I know and some whom I don’t.We...

 We must always tell what we see.  Above all, and this is more difficult, we must always see what we see. Charles Peguy Ignorance and apathy feed on each other. “Don’t worry about it, everything will be okay” is what you tell a child to soften the pain of loss. It is...