Saturday, May 31, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The Man Who Listened. Listening is a superpower.
- From the archives: Umberto Eco on buying books.
- Is just ignoring the judges the way to go? The Biden Administration did it for years.
- The Consumer AI revolution won't be technical - it'll be emotional.
Clint Eastwood
1. Outlaw Josey Wales
2. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
3. Dirty Harry
4. Fistful of Dollars
5. (tie) Kelly's Heroes (tie) Unforgiven
Where Eagles Dare almost made the list but Eastwood really is a supporting character in that. Many consider Unforgiven his best movie but I placed it further down the list solely based on the number of times I rewatched it. Really liked Grand Torino but the ones I picked were classics. Also liked The Eiger Sanction but the book was better. The Dirty Harry films (after the original) didn't make the list because that character became cartoonish as it went along (just glad the role didn't go to Frank Sinatra - that would have been a completely different franchise).
He last directed a movie last year begging the question of if he's finally retired from films?
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Would love if people started screaming in delight and anticipation the way some people scream uncontrollably when Taylor Swift releases a new album when a new Flotsam and Jetsam is released.
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Friday, May 30, 2025
Linky Linky
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- VDH: Democrats and their DEI albatross.
- How big homebuilders and and private equity made American cities unaffordable (with a focus on Dallas-Fort Worth). Agree with the premise of how rule changes slanted the playing field towards Wall Street and big builders but think the factors of who is moving into these growing cities (blue staters used to paying inflated home prices with myriad regulation obstacles) and the shirking amount of available land in the cities (God isn't making any new land) should be taken into account.
- Nellie Orr, DOJ official's wife, may have perjured herself in Russia Hoax testimony to Congress. This story isn't going away and Nellie and Bruce Orr may be going to jail.
- Atlantic hurricane preseason 2025. All opinion and no data seems to be the climate change arguments in a nutshell.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Still believe that President Trump supports the Big Beautiful Bill because he wants the Trump tax cuts and no taxes on tips or overtime pay to become law. Think he'll try to implement the DOGE recommended spending cuts through a recission bill sent to Congress which is now reported to be coming as soon as next Monday. Woe to any politician that votes against that since it then that vote becomes the centerpiece of a campaign against them.
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Thursday, May 29, 2025
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Glenn Reynolds on Scary AI, and Scarier Not-Scary AI. "It's a game where the only winning move is not to play."
- From the archives: Tim Urban Taming the Mammoth.
- US International Trade Court blocks many of Trump's tariffs. This will of course be appealed and I think many are growing tired of unelected lower court judges trying to run the country.
- Taking on the Tyrants. They forgot to add Canada's Justin Trudeau to the list.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Yesterday's post was relatively late and today's post is relatively early. Albert Einstein could argue that it's all relative.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- From the "you can't make this stuff up" file - Harvard business professor fired for making up data in her dishonesty study.
- From the archives: Ben Franklin and the thirteen necessary virtues.
- Farnam Street interview with Bill Belichick. Worth your time.
- Heist: David Mamet's Caper. Have to watch this movie. (HT Execupundit)
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Sorry for the wonky posting today. Played poker last night and didn't go to sleep till late. How did I do? Let's just say I did better than the Knicks or the Red Sox.
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Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- When Universities have recalls.
- From the archives: Winston Churchill's daily routine.
- The unintended deadly consequences of federally mandated fuel efficiency.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Dingle is a city on the south coast of Ireland but "dingle" is also an old word meaning "a deep wooded valley or dell." Guess that gives more clarity to the word "dingleberry" if you think about it.
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Monday, May 26, 2025
The FBI
The FBI under Kash Patel is returning to the FBI I remember as a kid.
- Dan Bongino gives an update on what the FBI has been up to. Look for more referrals for prosecution to come.
- Keeping our country safe. Reminder US Embassies around the world represent American soil.
Memorial Day Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Enjoy your cookouts today. Cut the grass maybe or have the day off from work. But don't forget the reason why we have the holiday. Remember those who gave the least full measure of devotion to both your life and their country. Should be everyday but on this day most of all.
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Sunday, May 25, 2025
More Linky Links
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Biden Administration labeled people questioning Covid vaccines as Domestic Violent Extremists. We were heading into an authoritative state where we didn't even know who was in charge.
- From the archives: The four levels of reading.
- Checking in with Scott Adams.
- Trump, Rubio take aim at National Security Council's "Deep State"
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- She's not wrong. The system was not broken over night and it won't be fixed over night either.
- Ben Shapiro on 4 big questions about Biden's health cover-up.
- The Left Hand Rule. Fascinated by the concept of anti-matter.
- Jonathan Haidt: Taking back childhood from phones - finally.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Wonder if the support of crypto and stable coins is a subtle strategy to discretely "end the fed." Or at least greatly reduce the power and influence of the Federal Reserve. The more companies take Bitcoin and other types of crypto for payment the less people become dependent on the vagaries of Congress, the Fed, and the interest rates they create.
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Saturday, May 24, 2025
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
So this week marked the two year anniversary of me suffering a stroke that required me to be hospitalized for 3 weeks. I feel mostly recovered though my balance and speech are a little off. I do take it as a step forward that I didn't even remember the anniversary but was reminded of it but something else. Life is precious - don't take it for granted!
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Friday, May 23, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The Oracle of Omaha calls it a career. It wasn't all wins.
- Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security are not playing around. Harvard needs to learn they are not special and above the law.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Reminder that Memorial Day weekend isn't just a reason to have a cookout. The root of the holiday is "to remember" your deceased loved ones included - not just military members who have passed. You should remember those you or the country have lost this weekend. Living military members may take offense if you wish them a Happy Memorial Day. You are actually wishing death upon them.
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Memorial Day Weekend
Though fallen members of our military (both of natural causes and in service) are the most important to remember - please don't forget those loved ones you've lost this Memorial Day weekend as well.
Thursday, May 22, 2025
More Linky Links
More stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The futility of security patches. I got the message - but I will still rely on Borepatch telling me something I may need to do.
- Good for Governor DeSantis increasing the penalties for "swatting" in Florida. The practice should be illegal in all states.
- From the archives: 39 book recommendations from Charlie Munger.
- The decline of the Democratic coalition. A pessimistic outlook of the Democratic Party by a liberal Democrat.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Peter Attia with a new curated series on different health topics - the first is on metabolic health.
- The Biden "politburo" accused of running the country in secret. "Every Democrat is going to need to have an answer on Biden and why we let him stay so long."
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Not superstitious but you have to admit that famous people do seem to die in threes. We just lost George Wendt and Jim Irsay. It makes me nervous wondering about who could be next?
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Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Society.
- Marco Rubio is not wrong - the State Department needed to be reformed.
- Bill Clinton is an awful person.
- We Shall See. I too am curious how this turns out. My guess is Russia gets to keep Crimea, the Donbas has elections to see if they remain with Ukraine or join Russia, and Russia get entry into the 2026 World Cup.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Feel awful for Scott Adams. Yesterday he announced he has prostate cancer that has spread to his bones and has a short time to live. He has brightened the days of so many. I truly hope he does have some some nice days.
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Tuesday, May 20, 2025
Linky Links
Some stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Biden and his palace court. (HT Execupundit)
- From the archives: 50 Things I Know. Good life advice.
- Fixing Social Security's age-old misunderstanding. The current language is confusing.
- On reducing Generals, Admirals, and Senior Officers in the military.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Hard to miss that the throughline in all President Trump's foreign dealings is economic benefits. The reason for Putin to stop the bloodbath in the Ukraine War is to normalize economic relations with the US and the rest of the world. As the saying goes "Blood is a big expense" and Trump is dangling dollar signs in front of many world leaders. Still say getting Russia into the World Cup may be the clincher.
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Monday, May 19, 2025
Knowledge
What is the path to knowledge is one of the most asked questions in life.
Feel free to share the post. Everyone should tread the path!
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- Heh Heh
- Many have seen this clip and thought "Wait Mexico has a navy?"
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Martin Gurri on how the moral life is played out not in grand gestures but in everyday virtues. Good perspective.
- The NHL's Final Four. The man knows his hockey.
- Glenn Reynolds on diving in the Cayman Islands. Dove there years ago and it was great. I miss diving.
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Missed the original Friday news dump that Joe Biden has "aggressive" colon cancer that has spread to his bones. Though in one sense in combination with the release of the Hur interview tapes it does make Joe Biden appear to most to be an old man with dementia now suffering with terminal cancer. On the other hand I can't stop thinking about how the White House doctor could miss evidence of either - his dementia or his cancer. He had to be part of the coverup keeping a puppet in office and he definitely broke his oath to first do no harm.
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Sunday, May 18, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Peter Attia on REM sleep latency and Alzheimer's disease. More reason to get a good night's sleep.
- The Grand Encyclopedia of Eponymous Laws. Some of these are pretty good.
- Jonathan Turley - why the Biden tapes with Hur are virtual racketeering indictments.
- There's been a huge jump in violent crime in AOC's District since she took office. Elections have consequences.
Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The audio of Joe Biden's interview with Special Prosecutor Robert Hur in 2023 is devastating - to the reputations of Barack Obama, Chuck Schumer, and Nancy Pelosi. It is painfully clear that Biden was not in charge and the question becomes - who was in charge for all those years?
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Saturday, May 17, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Matt Taibbi: Who started the Lawfare era? Peru, Canada, and turtles all the way down.
- From the archives: Walton and the Wizard. I miss Bill Walton.
- The World's Largest Economies (including US States).
- Henry Miller's 11 Commandments of Writing and His Daily Creative Routine.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The Knicks completely dismantled the Celtics last night to win the series and move on to the Eastern Conference Finals. I quit watching in the third quarter it was so bad a beating. Looking forward to a summer of just the beach, golf, and hiking until football season.
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Friday, May 16, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Modern Societal Alarm Bells. These are true but most are reversable.
- School uses AI to teach students.
- Good question: what was Pete Buttigieg doing?
- New study finds that tea and chocolate can reduce blood pressure. I'll believe the studies I want to believe.
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
We are only a little over 100 days into the new Trump Administration but are we already at the point where Donald Trump can feel he laid out his agenda (much of it via Executive Orders) and now just go on a world tour giving speeches and signing deals? Meanwhile back at home members of his Administration are taking care of business. This week it was RFK Jr. testifying to Congress and laying out the MAHA agenda and Border Czar Tom Holman on CNN dismantling the press and AOC. Next week it could easily be JD Vance, Tulsi Gabbard, Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio, Pete Hesgeth, and others taking the spotlight. Meanwhile Trump just glories in a world tour. My concern is that this may be too much too fast.
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Thursday, May 15, 2025
More Linky Links
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- Why are interest rates so high? It's bad fiscal policy. The interest rates are tied to the national debt.
- Weight Watchers files for bankruptcy protection. There's a trimming the fat joke to be made here. (HT Cultural Offering)
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Good advice from Tim Ferriss. Reminds me of the CEO who would write DNT, DNT over and over during meetings. When asked what it meant he said it was a reminder to Do Not Talk.
- Interesting list - recently retired Saints QB Derek Carr is 16th in career earning but some of the other names are just as surprising.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
The Celtics won game 5 of their series against the Knicks last night forcing a game 6 at Madison Square Garden. That becomes a key game. If Boston wins that one you know they'll be favored to win a game 7 at the TD Garden and move on to the conference finals.
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Wednesday, May 14, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- In regard to that 747 from Qatar.
- Celtics Jayson Tatum ruptures Achille's - out of rest of playoffs. Oh great!
- US Military aims to reopen Adak Naval base in Alaska to counter Pacific threats (read China).
- Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe among players reinstated by MLB.
Wednesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Occasionally I'll use the phrase "as an aside" in my Flotsam and Jetsam posts and it occurred to me that it's kind of redundant - everything in a Flotsam and Jetsam post is by definition "an aside."
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Tuesday, May 13, 2025
Godel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter writes in Godel, Escher, Bach, "Do words and thoughts follow formal rules, or do they not? That problem is the problem of the book." That also seems to be the very crux of a working AI system - getting words, numbers, and algorithms to follow rules.
GEB writes that, "Mathematicians (and more recently linguists, philosophers, and some others) are the only users of formal systems, and they invariably have an interpretation in mind for the formal systems which they use and publish." That "some others" were clearly AI programmers in hindsight.
Did Godel, Escher, Bach predict blockchain in a way? It talks about steps to a formal system being linked in an ironclad way - just as blockchain establishes ownership in an ironclad way. Does this mean that blockchain was a precursor to AI or did they develop in parallel?
Did the book predict AI? It writes about written symbols being translated to algorithms of typographical rules including all the Internet and the very rules of physics. Are AI hallucinations inclusions of non-theorems in the AI system? Is that how we get black founding fathers? Is DEI itself a non-theorem?
Enjoying the book but it is challenging.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Joint Us-China statement on economic trade meeting. The very definition of a reciprocal trade agreement.
- RFK Jr. says Trump just did what no Democrat ever had the guts to do. This is a huge moment.
- VDH: The Decivilizing of America. It needs to be stressed that this was intentional.
- Should public sector unions have collective bargaining rights? On he fence on this issue. On one hand unfunded (or underfunded) retirement benefits for public sector employees is one f the biggest under reported stories of our time. On the other hand local and state governments call for high standards without wanting to offer commiserate pay.
Tuesday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
It was tough watching the Celtics lose a 14-point lead to the Knicks, then possibly lose Jason Tatum for the playoffs, and then lose the game to New York to fall behind in the series 3-1. It was tough.
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Monday, May 12, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- Is the US Navy sleepwalking into defeat? Time to wake up.
- Deputy Director Dan Bongino with an update on the work being done at the FBI. Never forget he took a huge pay cut to do this work for the American people.
- Are we about to see huge pharma costs to the end-user get slashed? Will this also mean drastic reduction in healthcare costs?
- Germany halts surveillance of AfD amid US pressure. Sounds like they were caught in the act and called on their censorship.
Mark Twain and the Orange Men
Watched the show of Conan O'Brien receiving the Mark Twain Award at the Kennedy Center on Netflix over the weekend. I knew there would be a leftist anti-Donald Trump slant to the whole show but was willing to watch and enjoy some good laughs because I truly enjoy Conan O'Brien. But when they tried to co-opt Mark Twain as a supporter of their positions - I felt they went way too far.
Have a new post up on Substack on the show (because I had to say something).
Monday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
With the news that China and the US have reached a tariff reduction agreement the stock markets have soared. I really want to see the details of this agreement but can't help but wonder why a Communist country is so eager to get tariffs reduced. Isn't communism supposed to level everyone not place a premium on financial advantages that could make certain individuals rich?
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Sunday, May 11, 2025
Richard Feynman
Today would have been Richard Feynman's 107th birthday. There was a certain good feeling about reading Godel, Escher, Bach while thinking of him. This was of course a physics Nobel Prize winner who took a year off to study biology while at Cal Tech and almost solved the riddle of the DNA double helix before Watson and Crick did - and he would have too if his year "off" didn't run out.
Feynman was notoriously famous for working on problems like the structure of DNA and then just putting it aside in a file. His file cabinet is said to be chock full of such half-finished problems. I have long thought that a great use for AI would be to put this amazing computing power to work to solve these "files" for the benefit of mankind.
As always I recommend the book Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman in his honor.
I would also recommend the essay What Impossible Meant to Feynman. Often when I learn something new I'd find myself exclaiming "Impossible!"
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- The great vaccine scam: How they tricked the world - and profited off their lies. This is scary, fact based information.
- "On to Cincinnati" - the art of inspiring improvement. With "on to" being the key words.
- Peter Attia: Do fat cells "remember" obesity even after weight loss?
Mother's Day Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Happy Mother's Day! If you are lucky enough to have your mom still alive - be sure to call or visit her today. And if you have a grandchild be sure to wish your daughter or step daughter a happy Mother's Day!
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Saturday, May 10, 2025
Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- I like subtle (you may have to be of a certain age to get this)
Linky Links
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- Interesting article in the Boston Globe. Here's the text.
- From the archives - the broadband van life.
- Mike Rowe was ahead of the curve on this.
- Richard Grinnell call out actors for political intolerance. Just learned Grinnell was the Director of the Kennedy Center. Support his stance 100%.
Casey Means
Saw a clip of a speech of Dr. Casey Means who was Donald Trump's pick to be Surgeon General. and was impressed. Also saw people like
- VP JD Vance
- Senator Rand Paul
The absurd attacks on Casey Means reveal just how far off course our healthcare conversations have veered, and how badly entrenched interests--including Big Food and its industry-funded social media gurus--are terrified of change.
Saturday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Disney announced they will be opening a new theme park in Abu Dhabi. It would be amusing if certain people at ESPN then lobbied to then have a WNBA game played there and Abu Dhabi said sure but the players have wear burkas. Strangely a game in those circumstances might be the highest viewed WNBA game ever.
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Friday, May 09, 2025
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- First it was the Trump Administration telling illegal immigrants to deport themselves - now is Wall Street telling Google to break itself up?
- Leo XIV named first American Pope.
- Interesting - the trues size of countries.
- Albertexit? I've been talking about this for a while. Remember Alberta doesn't have to be the 51st state either. They could be a stand alone nation on the population scale of about Finland's.
Friday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Had a weird night. Was tired so I went to bed early, then I couldn't sleep and watched some TV, then I finally went back to bed and overslept. Sorry for the weird posting schedule today. Being retired and free to sleep when you wish is nice but I like having a semblance of a regular day.
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Some Memes You May Enjoy
Many a truth is said in jest.
- Heh Heh
- That would explain why they're so "lifelike"
Thursday, May 08, 2025
Godel, Escher, Bach
GEB is nominally a book about a mathematician, an artist, and a musician but as the author writes in the 20-year anniversary edition, "In a word GEB is a very personal attempt to say how it is that animate beings can come out of inanimate matter." Or to the point, "I have tried to weave an Eternal Golden Braid out of these three strands: Godel, Escher, Bach."
The book is structured in an unusual way: as counterpoint between Dialogues and Chapters. Math is hard enough but this structure tends to lessen the burden. I'm resigned to not fully understanding the math in my first reading. The book is essentially about "Strange Loops" with perhaps the most pressing today being can intelligent behavior be programmed? The author puts forth that this seeming contradiction is no contradiction at all. I guess we'll see.
The book has been called the bible of artificial intelligence since it first came out who's to argue.
Linky Links
Stuff I found interesting or amusing and thought I'd share.
- NY Dems support of Letisha James keeps getting more bizarre (and more costly).
- Mike Rowe makes a lot of sense.
- Informal, Hyperlocal History. Can't help but think of Louis L' Amour who grew up in the west and used local stories known to the "old timers" as the basis of many of his books.
Thursday Flotsam and Jetsam
Have a new miscellaneous thoughts and observations post up on Substack.
Went to bed last night around 9:30 with the Celtics up by 10 points. I was tired (all the travel and walking may have caught up with me). Figured if Boston went on to win - it's only game 2 of a 7 game series. And if the Knicks pull off the comeback and win - I really didn't want to see that. I'm glad I went to bed - New York now leads the series 2-0.
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Quotes for Today
Some quotes I hope may resonate with you.
Have a new Quotes for Today up on my Substack. As I've mentioned doing this as a way to thank those who have Subscribed. If you are a Subscriber - you should have received an email. Thanks!
Wednesday, May 07, 2025
Pysics and Economics
Likewise, economics has been divided into the study of the large (Macroeconomics) and the personal (Microeconomics). Yet you never seem to read or hear about any economists working on a unifying theory of economics. This seems odd to me. Like such a theory is not a priority. Makes me wonder if it is because economic decisions are made by people who aren't always rational or because economics isn't really a science?