POTUS is an impossible job, designed as it is as a little king, after the clown parade in our putative mother country, England. Our POTUS acts out as if he is the crowned head in his court. Is he mad King George III or Henry VIII?
Category: Nobody Asked, But
This Is Good
There are wide spaces, vast expanses, long durations, deep wells of good in our lives. Today, my granddaughter played in a church league basketball game. It was a beautiful day.
Non Sequitur — A Tanka
Non sequitur, does.. Not follow, does not lead, it’s.. Not reality. The Bowling Green Massacre… Was e’er last night in Sweden.
Patchwork
If actions are not based on the NAP, peace, non-authoritarian, non-nationalist, anti-protectionist principles, indeed, they are just a patchwork of greedy impulses, non-libertarian to an extreme.
Doppelganger
It seems that Jefferson was still romantically attached to liberty; but his eyes and his dreams were on the arising French Revolution. He must have assumed he had left the American experiment in good hands. This is the nature of idea men — they are great at founding dreams, but they are terrible at (if not entirely absent during) implementation.
Magical Thinking
I do believe I ought to bang my head, Against this wall again–I do believe, This time will work–I’ll bring alive the dead, A final failing time–yet none will grieve
Cognitive Bias #1 — Anchoring
Anchoring is a cognitive bias that we encounter in every negotiation, even with the snooze bar on our morning alarm clock. A common example would be the case where an employee asks her boss for a raise. The negotiation will then take place in the range between the current compensation and the ask or the offer, whichever comes first. Politicians take advantage of this cognitive bias among their constituents.
Horton’s Law
Today on the Tom Woods Show (probably not actually today’s show, I listen via podcast), Tom cited Horton’s Law. If you haven’t heard of it before, I bring it to you now as a public service.
Coffee and Markets
Why is it that in Ireland, the UK, and Western Europe you can buy coffee in a jar, whereas here in the USA you can only find ersatz coffee in a jar? For once, I am not going to blame the state (although I suspect it is behind this somewhere). The market is here, it’s just not evenly distributed, to paraphrase William Gibson, the cyberpunk writer.
The Fit Hits the Shan
If journalists report on what X is “planning” then they have an infinite supply of “breaking” stories. For instance, later today I expect to gather up the muck buckets to dump them on the compost pile. Just think of the potential headlines.