R World
Instead of a Fortune Cookie Slip ...
The Republican Party's Notions of What Government Can Do
Names for Money
A Multi-Faith T-Shirt
Francis Fukuyama on the War Against Iran
Stock Market Performance Under Recent Presidents
Self Publishing in Multiple Locations
On Mongrels and America
Odd Thoughts on a Sunday
Labor and Financial Markets Roughly One Year Into Trump's Second Term - Not Impressive
Stochastic Parrots and Politicians - Kensy Cooperrider's Conversation with Melanie Mitchell on How Metaphors for AI Might Shape Its Direction
If You Could Time Travel Only Once, Would You?
Corporate Culture, Conference Rooms, and a Curious Juke Box
Optimism as a Sign of Sophistication
Used to be a Fax Checker
Free Will Isn't Free
Democracy is Like a Bicycle
A Call for More Medals at the Olympics
What Is Most Systemic is Most Intimate - says Peter Senge
Rough and Tumble Fighting in the South
Prediction: In a Generation Wealth Will Be Another Right of Citizens
Checks and Balances are Not Working
Lincoln: Right Makes Might
Hitchhiking as Uber 1.0
Proposal for a Dog Museum
William Deci on Autonomy Supportive Relationships
A Korean Project Managers' Perspective on American and Japanese Employees
What Mardi Gras Evolved Into
2026 - Not Just a Year
Separating Signal From Noise in Quarterly GDP Growth Reports
Why the Supreme Court Striking Down Trump's Tariffs Is Such a Great Thing
Free Will Gives Way to Fee Will
"A Civilization Persisted from Athens to Rome to America
A Military Cost to our Failure to Help Ukraine in its Defense Against Russia
George Washington and the Bank of England
A Theory About Why Bitcoin Is Falling in Price
Economist: 61% of Americans Think Country is on the Wrong Track
Xenophobes Don't Like It When You Call Them ...
One Way AI May Change Our Mind
Possible Side Effects of Watching Sports
Household Net Worth by Percentiles
One of Bill Abendroth's Favorite Lines
How AI's Opinion of Us Could Define Our Future
America's Complete Rupture in International Relations
Does This Mean Employees Are More Valuable or Less Important?
Betting on the Return of Jesus
Dow[n] Day at the NASDAQ
2025's Very Bad Job Numbers - 15,000 New Jobs a Year
An Inflection Point for AI
The Political Arena is Not a Dance Hall - or Why Music Isn't What Needs to Unite Us
Time Travel Book
Super Bowl Halftime Entertainment Contrasted with Baseball
One More Generation Gap Metric - words per minute while talking
Accidental Holidays
The 2027 Paradigm Shift in No Hands Driving
The Two Transformations of AI
Trump's Exchange With Kaitlin Collins
Trump's Racism
A Bad Combination
Sir Bill Browder on Russia, Politics, and Trump
Next iteration YOLO
As Self Driving Cars Move More Rapidly, Will That Drive Rapid Obsolescence of Traditional Cars?
2 Important Messages to Broadcast During the Trump Presidency
What Are the Odds?
What Korea Dramatically Illustrates About the Contrast Between Relying on Strongmen or Institutions
NATO Secretary Mark Rutte on Russia's Massive Casualties in War Against Ukraine
Why MAGA Hates George Soros
New WNBA Team: Sleeveless in Seattle
Fed Chair Powell on Disconnect Between Consumer Sentiment and Behavior
The Canadian Dollar During Trump's Presidency
A Perspective on Today's Politics and the Need for Less Traumatic Triggers for Change
Voter Turnout Seems to Rise in a Divided Country
The Balancing Act: FDR vs. Dictatorship and the Power of Inclusive Policy (Or, What is Fascism?)
The Price of Gold Rises as Trust in Institutions Wanes
NO MORE ICE!
Soon to Hit 2 Million Views on R World
Ouija Board Stand at a Funeral Home
Any Hope in the Fact That MAGA Lied About Why They Supported Trump?
The Difference Between Conservatives and Fascists
Remembering Anne Frank
AE as Segue to AI
Trump Shares a Peace of His Mind
Creating a Global Trading System with Multiple Alliances
Greenland! Iceland! Not Sure What It Is or Where But We Must Have It!
Americans Mostly Uneasy About Trump's Presidency (but also frustrated, unsafe, exhausted ...)
Market Manipulation and Puzzling Political Orientation
Trump's Odd Hatred for the Great City of Minneapolis
Stock Market Day After Trump's Announcement That He's Going to War Over Greenland
Trump Daily Amps Up the Fascist Meter - Serving Subpoenas to Minnesota Governor, Attorney General and Minneapolis Mayor
Time to Invoke the 25th Amendment
Donald Trump 2026 - Like King Lear But With Nuclear Weapons
The 100 Year Gap Between the Civil War and Civil Rights - an Argument About How Culture, Entrepreneurship and Institutions Are Connected
The Difference Between a Conservative and A Fascist
A Tentative Theory About 20th Century Germany and the US and the Impact of Conscious Social Change on Entrepreneurship
Trust and Innovation - The Value of CEO Trust
Harper's Reports - 92 Percent of Investment Driven by Data Centers & How Credit Card Debt is Increasing Divorce Rates
Institutions As Enablers of Excellence
"Mixed" Reviews on Trump Coming Into His First Anniversary
Trump's Terrible Tariffs and Job Creation Rates
I've Replaced my Keyboard with an Ouija Board
2025 Job Creation Less Than 4Q of 2024
If You Were Conscripted into Public-Sector Entrepreneurship Where Would You Focus
Excerpt from Pope Leo's State of the World address
2025 Was the Slowest Rate of Job Creation Since the Great Recession (And - of course - the Year of COVID)
Michael Reagan Dies at 80
When We Began to Wear Clothes for More Than Warmth - Beginning the Move from Living in Nature to Living in Culture
Politics in a Multicultural America
Either We Become a Radically Different Country or the Republican Party Becomes Essentially Extinct for a Lifetime
A Vote Against Democracy Should Mean The End of Your Right to Vote
Monogamous Penguins
History Compresses Vast Sprawls of Time, Lives, Events and Trends
Cooperation Helps One Compete
A Cultural Contrast Between Canada and the US As Seen in Its Supreme Court
The Secret to Becoming a Billionaire
Happy new year!
Change in Value Through 2025 - the Highs (Silver) and Lows (Trump Media & Tech Stock)
The Directional Difference Between Socialists and Capitalists
I Didn't Say She Was Emotional
AI's Great - Largely Unspoken - Potential for Intellectual Matchmaking
Fortune Cookies as a Gateway
Two Amendments That Shifted Policy from A Focus on Just Capital to Capital and Labor
Mencken's Rebuttal to Thorstein Veblen's Claim of Conspicuous Consumption
If You Can't Decide on a Genre For Tonight's Entertainment ... might we suggest sports?
Proposing Cat Stevens Updates One of His Classics to "Oh Very Old!"
Don't Forget the Mary in Merry Christmas!
It is a Curious Thing to Advocate for a World You Can't Live In
YTD Returns on Various Assets Through 23 December 2025
The Miracle of Community & Culture in a World in Which We Can Distinguish Between 7 to 10 Million Different Colors
Real GDP Percent Change from Year Ago = 2.3%
7 Million Shades of Cultural Reality
Oh the Dickens You Say
Reading Minds
UM Consumer Sentiment Index at Lowest on Record (going back to 1960)
Herod's Violent Crackdown
This World, a poem
The 10 Richest Americans are Worth a Combined $2.6 Trillion
Karma of a Different Sort
Are You Closer to Bankruptcy or Billionaire?
Side Effects May Include ... What Political Parties Are Not Telling Us
Job Numbers in Trump's Economy
Frankly, I Had Higher Expectations for the West Wing Sequel
The AI Generated Soundtrack of Social Encounters
Powell Suggests Economy is Steadily Losing Jobs
Trump's Threat to A Century of Foreign Policy And Global Alignment
The Tiny Portion of Crypto Assets Used for Payments
A Christmas Poem (or something like it)
Labor Market Like a Deer in the Headlights Waiting for More Predictable Economic Policy
For Profit Media is At Odds With A Healthy Democracy
Thanksgiving 404
If I Were King
Tariffs Seem to Be Driving Layoffs
How California did - and perhaps the US will - Turned Blue
A Quarter of a Century to Recover - the 1929 Great Crash
Indecisive
Trump's Department of Labor Fabricates 2 Million New Jobs - confusing a periodic correction with the real world
Weakly Job Creation Rate This Summer
Crypto Wealth Dissolved
Job Creation Slows for 2025
Miss Information
BIG returns from TINY changes COMPOUNDING over time
What Global Consciousness Has Done Local Politics
The Lack of Civility in the Trump Administration
Trump's Presidency as Evidence of Poor Quality Civics Classes
How to be Miserable
Prayer, Politicians, and Lies
The Scale of Tragedy in WWII
Amplified Intelligence
Let Us Pretend We Are Orchestrating Them
Inflation Reporting Has Lost the Plot
The Importance of Miscalculating How Long a Project Will Take
During the Shutdown Only 0.04% of Federal Employees - Including the President and Vice President - Are Getting Paid
I love you too
LA Dodgers Become First American Team to Clinch World Series on Foreign Soil (The Past is Still Probable )
21st Century Fortunes - Give Away Now, Later, Or Plow Into Foundations?
Yesavage's Inexperience Beats Dodgers' Great Experience
Jefferson's List of Grievances in the Declaration of Independence Sound Like Trump's To Do List
Trump's Ballroom Sends a Simple Message
Canadians Take Game One of the World Series
Rule of Law - Even Presidents Are Subject to the Law
No Kings Personal Protest
Immigration OLD, NEW & NEO
The Way Shohei Ohtani Plays
A Summary of New Politics for the Next Economy
Jensen Huang on Bringing Other Companies Along
Is the Internet Shrinking Your Brain?
Reality TV and Surreal Policies
Power Over and Power To - The Distinction Between Great and Awful Institutions
Interplanetary System - A New Information-scape
Falling Off a Cliff with a Blindfold - Job Loss Blackout During Trump's Government Shutdown
Jane Goodall on Making a Difference
Donald Trump as the Last Resort
Bill Gates The Trillionaire
Trump Deploying Troops Into American Cities As Further Evidence He Doesn't Understand Specialization
Trump's Nobel Peace Prize
The Colonization of Mars and America and Travel Times
From Will Storr’s Selfie - Pruning Down the Brain's Possible Paths
A Trumped Up Charge
Jill Lepore, Changing the Constitution, and the Issues You'll Soon Be Engaged In
Outlawing Comedy (And what that tells us about the last time America was great)
Adams - No Reason to Believe That Our Founding Generation Was Better Than You Are
Jim Moore's Poem Those Others
The Development of Time Travel That Doesn't Disrupt the Development of Time Travel
Colbert, Kimmel, Trump and the Role of the Jester
A Decoder Ring for MAGA Regarding School Shootings
Last Words
Curious Exaggerations in the Socio-Economic World
Gordon S. Woods On American Chaos in the Generation After the Revolution
Even Immortal Gods Die Once their Institutions Erode
The Secret to Japan's 100,000 100 Year Olds
Stochastic Terrorism and Social Media
American Identity - and Acceptable Marriages - Now More Defined by Politics Than Religion