No matter how hard you try… “You can’t fix stupid.” Ron White Realizing that stupidity has no cure is really, really good for you mental health. The barista at the…
I’m feeling the need to rant today… Now, normally, I keep my rants focused on a single issue, but this time I’ve gotta’ go with two. Any logical, sane person…
Quick Thought: 90% of Medical Care Did Not Exist 75 years ago
“More than 90 percent of the medicine being practiced today did not exist in 1950.” John Steele Gordon in A Short History of American Medical Insurance I don’t know about…
I’ve talked a lot about how both politicians and media have gotten really, really good at manipulating – ummmm…. I meant communicating to us. There’s a huge amount of money…
“Congress is a sausage factory that has forgotten how to make sausage.” Ed Luce Comparing sausage-making with the process of negotiating legislation in Congress has been around for long…
Seldom is there near-unanimous agreement on anything. One of those rare examples is that American political discourse is toxic. I think we call all agree on this one. On any…
“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching…
“Not ending a sentence with a preposition is a bit of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put.” Winston Churchill I love that one… I guess it floated…
Seems like pretty much everybody holds a low opinion of economics. It’s boring. Economists are boring. Their predictions are almost always wrong, and they’re constantly trying to force us to…
