Fixing the market
I was thinking about the long-term effects of the ACA (Obamacare), and there is one thing that strikes me as potentially very big, but I have not read much about it. One of the advantages ...
In search of the perfect tagline.
I was thinking about the long-term effects of the ACA (Obamacare), and there is one thing that strikes me as potentially very big, but I have not read much about it. One of the advantages ...
When I was in college, a group of us were looking at influences on the music that influenced us. Velvet Underground kept on appearing over and over. The joke became that they were the most ...
Sometimes you hear something about the creative process that completely changes your relationship to, and understanding of, a piece of art. Doc. Pomus wrote an amazing number of songs. You know some of them, even ...
Shannon sent me to Costco with a shopping list today. She knows me well. Her list included landmarks that I could not help but find. “Head towards the light with the bad ballast. From there, ...
This story is an interesting example of how the government in asking citizens to do something may have inadvertently triggered an opposite response. 1) Water main breaks. The city has 12 hours of clean water ...
There’s a remarkable thing that happens in the change of the seasons. We have a window of brilliant, in-your-face color that is fall. Then, a wind-storm comes by, and it’s all gone. But then the ...
Here is a perfect example of the externalities of Federal spending. The State of Utah is going to pay $1.67 million to the federal government to have federal parks within the state open for a ...
Tonight’s random lesson learned from putting the iPod on shuffle. The baseline for Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” is essentially the same as the baseline for Loreena McKennitt’s “Lady of Shallot.” This probably explains why both ...
There is one ridge of trees between the rest of the woods and my neighborhood. Whether it’s because the trees are sheltered in some way by the wind, or their roots spent the summer under ...