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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” Hamlet In my prior blog, as you may recall, I was distracted … a rather common state for me. I had intended to muse on the practical, yet most disturbing, issue of our public debt leading to the collapse […]
Over the past couple of days, my head had been swimming with ideas about issues like national and international debt. For example, the U.S. debt is between $40 and $45 trillion depending on how you count things while global debt among all nations is somewhere around $300 trillion. Those are damn big numbers. At the […]
As Yogi Berra once quipped (sort of), it is deja vu all over again. The other evening, I got a message from Facebook that I had violated something about their esoteric community standards … their foundational rules and regulations. In some ways, this is familiar territory for me … being punished by Facebook. But first, some […]
Remember those hucksters selling salvation on television. That phenomenon probably started with Oral Roberts when I was just a kid. In fact, he started his radio ministry way back in 1947 and his TV outreach sometime in the mid 50s. Frankly, I don’t remember him (other than a vague sense of his appearance), though I […]
Not long ago, I came across the following quote. “I do not want to see the Republican Party ride to victory on the four horses of calumny … fear, ignorance, bigotry, and smear. I doubt if the Republican Party could do so, simply because I do not believe the American people will uphold any political […]
Not long ago, a group of us sauntered out to the middle of a body of water located in rural Wisconsin known as Green Lake. We looked forward to enjoying the 4th of July fireworks display being launched from the small eponymous town located along the water’s eastern shore. A good time was had by all. […]
Our so-called national birthday is upon us. By way of a celebration, let me touch upon one concern of mine (among many) … our sinking reputation across the globe. This declining global status reflects, one might argue, a sense that our domestic political integrity has deteriorated significanctly. I might also add that a fear is […]
A while back, I recall writing a blog on President Kennedy’s iconic program, the Peace Corps. Of course, having served as a member of India-44 in the late 1960s, I tend to focus disproportionate attention on that program and to the fortunes of the world’s largest (by population) democracy … India. Recently, however, I heard something disturbing. HR […]
Don’t let the above graph stop you from reading further. The message below is rather simple, but important. In this blog I first chat about how we distribute our economic goodies in the U.S. and across the globe. That’s the equity question or, quite simply, how shares of the pie are distributed amongst our citizens. Then […]
I have always been taken aback when people who have amassed great fortunes are worshipped, often in an obsequious or fawning manner. During the gilded age, when robber barons accumulated obscene fortunes while laborers worked 70 pr more hours per week for subsistence wages, men like Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Morgan oft were celebrated as virtual […]
