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• Piketty, Inequality, Envy, and Fairness

  

  The rich-hating left went orgasmic over Thomas Piketty’s book Capital in the Twenty-First Century. I previously discussed the controversy. Now I’ve read the... Read more

  Posted on 17 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Human Life, and Death

  

  Laura Valenti decided to starve herself to death. It took two months.Her mind was deteriorating, but her decision wasn’t crazy. She had Huntington’s disease, an... Read more

  Posted on 13 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Great (?) Debate – Fox News Trumped

  

  If (as we’re told) Fox News was aiming to derail Trump, they sure weren’t clever like a fox. The “debate” could hardly have been better contrived to boost him. Read more

  Posted on 08 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Are Men Necessary? (Is Hillary?)

  

  When I reported buying, at a used book sale, Maureen Dowd’s Are Men Necessary? I said I’d let you know the verdict after reading it. I bought it because Dowd... Read more

  Posted on 06 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• House of Sand and Fog

  

  Massoud Behrani, 56, is a California garbage man. He used to be an air force colonel; in Iran; fled with his family when Khomeini took over. Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The $15 Minimum Wage – Money From Heaven

  

  Do you favor a $15 minimum wage? Nobody asks where the money comes from. Heaven, I guess.We’re told that if you give low wage workers more cash they’ll spend it... Read more

  Posted on 29 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Trumped

  

  You expect some pithy comments on Trump statements. I won’t so dignify them.That a billionaire TV personality with hair issues would get a lot of attention as... Read more

  Posted on 27 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Streets Are Not Paved With Gold

  

  This poem came to me during July 4 fireworks surrounded by thousands of fellow citizens of every hue and stripe gathered in joyful celebration of America – righ... Read more

  Posted on 23 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Iran: The Deal

  

  Better had we never negotiated. This deal makes Iran a more empowered adversary than a nuclear-armed Iran would have been. How nukes could have actually... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Is a Business For? Is Profit a Dirty Word?

  

  At a recent social event, most guests sanctimoniously agreed it was somehow disgusting that anyone should make a profit providing health care. Read more

  Posted on 15 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Pope Francis: Is Consumerism Bad?

  

  Pope Francis has denounced consumerism as a “poison” that threatens true happiness, and is an assault upon the poor. What does he say does bring true... Read more

  Posted on 11 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Greece At The Rubicon

  

  When the Euro was set up, they knew it was a fraught proposition, binding themselves to each other financially. The Germans in particular, fearful about giving... Read more

  Posted on 07 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Christians, Gays, and Sin

  

  Even before the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling, I wrote that gays (and the left in general), having basically won this fight, should ease up and be... Read more

  Posted on 05 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Introverts Versus Extroverts – A Personal Take

  

  Are you an introvert or extrovert? I sure know which I am. (Why do you think I’m sitting here by myself writing a blog?)One of my book groups has read Susan... Read more

  Posted on 01 July 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Great Mutilated Coin Scam

  

  “Waste, fraud and abuse.” How often we hear that from politicians promising to clean up government. I just roll my eyes, because if it were that simple, it woul... Read more

  Posted on 27 June 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The End of (Working Class) Men*

  

  American women earn only 78% of what men do. We’ve all heard this cause celebre. It’s utterly bogus. Women’s pay averages less than men’s because they do... Read more

  Posted on 23 June 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• America’s Political Decay

  

  A favorite book of mine is Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History (1992). He argued that centuries of ideological conflict had essentially ended with the... Read more

  Posted on 19 June 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Yosemite Rocks

  

  California is full of exceptionally cheerful people – judging from our recent trip there. Store clerks, flight attendants, passers-by, etc., all over.We... Read more

  Posted on 15 June 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Human Hubris and Skyscrapers

  

  “Hubris” is a favorite word of misanthropic cynics. For the Greeks it meant overweening pride – that presages a fall. For many moderns it means humans too... Read more

  Posted on 11 June 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Middle East: The Case for Not Doing

  

  A previous post critiqued Andrew Bacevich’s “limits of power” take on world affairs. He derided what he saw as vain attempts to control history, which can’t be... Read more

  Posted on 01 June 2015 CULTURE, POLITICS, SOCIETY