Survival and enlightenment in precarious times.
Not everyone is an entrepreneur. This should be obvious. If you've been unemployed for a long time, chances are you have a growing distrust of the market's ability to reward hard work and initiative. This is also known as "perspective." Read more [...]
I really didn't expect a layoff. The University President and the CFO broke the news me just before the weekly executive meeting I normally attended. I told them I wouldn't be at that meeting; "I have work to do." I immediately went back to my office and started looking for my next job. Read more [...]
I have always critiqued those arguing for small government because in my viewed, cutting government just to cut it can have disasterous consequences. One must in all fairness ask whether those who argue for few possessions are open to the same critique. Read more [...]
Doing the same thing over and over expecting a different result is a well-known sign of insanity. It will also drive a sane person to madness. I must conserve what sanity I have left. Read more [...]
OWS stated implicitly and explicitly that Washington, DC though full of sound and fury, signifies nothing. The nation’s true political center of gravity is no longer Washington, but Wall Street. Read more [...]
Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but by a scarcity of democracy.