There is a word for people who do not read: Illiterate. There is a word for people who are challenged by quantitative concepts: Innumerate. What would be the word for those swoggled by unforeseen consequences? Inconsequential?
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Conundrums
Which is the lesser of two evils — having a lesser evil in public office or having a greater evil moaning about losing? If the candidate who was the greater of two evils loses thereby, doesn’t that outcome represent a lesser of two evils?
This Just In
The media are dithering again. They incorrectly interpreted the Donna Brazile story to say that elections had been rigged. Now they are sticking to that incorrect story against a tsunami of contradicting fact.
Past, Present, and Future
A fundamental truth is that we only have the present in which to act on the results of the past and to effect our preferences for the future. To hope to relive the past is as futile as anything we can do.
Heedless Speed
As the Congress declares a radically accelerated time frame for passage of “tax reform,” my suspicion of their hurry grows. Is the objective of more knowledge served by a breakneck pace?
Pot Meet Kettle, Kettle, Pot
It seems odd that associates of one political party will regard members of opposing political parties as though they have character defects.
Deflection
It is never OK to tinker with the election process, but no combination of things done by not-POTUS will dot a single “i” or rejuvenate a specific uncrossed “t” in the career of POTUS.
The Balfour Declaration
November 2 marks the 100th Anniversary of Great Britain’s Balfour Declaration. In 1917, PM Arthur James Balfour wrote a letter to Baron Walter Rothschild declaring support for a Jewish homeland to be carved out from Arabic territory. Why is it that the British feel so comfortable with this kind of mapmaking?
Secession / Unification
Nobody asked but … I know how I feel relative to the problem in Catalonia. I favor Catalonian Independence. But it makes me really examine how I feel about separatist situations in general. I look first at the situation with the province of Ulster in Ireland, a province that was broken out and retained by…
Tax Reform
As with every Congress, talk of tax reduction is in the air. They pump up the promise by multiplying by years. The current pie in the sky is calculated to be $1.5 trillion over 10 years.