The Economist, that esteemed publication which is attached to a research and consulting business called the “Economist Intelligence Unit,” annually lists in order the best and worst cities of size in which to live. The results are somewhat predictable — … Continue reading
Category Archives: I’ve Been Thinking
The app “A Word A Day” noted recently that Stellenbosch as a verb means to be demoted to a useless job without loss of rank. Comes from the town of the same name in South Africa, which today is wonderful, … Continue reading
Why US Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice was forced out of consideration for Secretary of State based on her conveying incorrect information given her by the administration about a matter that was trivial and highly politicized. Why people are … Continue reading
When New Orleans found itself under water a couple of years ago, the legal community jumped forward to fulfill its social obligations by providing help of all kinds to the distressed New Orleans community. Lawyers labored nobly and long to … Continue reading
Jobs is the mantra of this Presidential election. What creates jobs? I do not know. There is likely an answer but each party has its own, and the electorate is ill-educated to judge. I suggest that our own personal analysis is fundamentally … Continue reading
There is an old joke that if you have two Jews you will have three opinions. Former US Congressman and New York Mayor Ed Koch this weekend added, “And also four different temples.” This joke is not a joke but … Continue reading
Now that we are finished with both rather conventional and predictable Conventions, the “race” for the Presidency begins in earnest. The seeming fragmentation of the body politic into discrete and intensely focused “voting blocs” which are fought over between the … Continue reading
The other day a man, Wade Michael Page, now sketchily described as a neo-Nazi white supremacist, shot some followers of the Sikh religion at their Wisconsin Temple, a patently deplorable action regardless of the backstory of either the perp or the victims. Beneath … Continue reading
American columnist and humorist Art Buchwald wrote the best stuff I ever read in a newspaper. His column ran in some New York paper (the Post?) when I was a teenager and I loved its often staccato style: a series of … Continue reading
A little knowledge is axiomatically asserted to be a dangerous thing; let me be dangerous. Here is an excerpt from a blurb received today via the National Association of Corporate Directors (a great organization; disclosure: I am on the New … Continue reading