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The Odyssey

California Connected - And Its Economy is Growing Fast

The Freedom 250 Initiative and Its Casual Disregard for Jesus and The Founding Fathers

Simple Mental Health Test

Inflation at 7.7% in Latest Report

A Stunning Rise in Boise's Wealth

Are We Smart Enough to Use AI?

Does Trump Give His Supporters a Feeling of Superiority?

Ted Turner Died Today

Who Is Now Wearing the Crown Jewels Stolen from the Louvre?

Bedlam in Southern California

Venture Capital or Startup Funding This Century

If You Think Trump is Too Old Today - Just Wait Until Tomorrow!

Subcontracting Texting to an Unemployed Fortune Cookie Author

Reality as a Stage Set

Technology and Problems

Kentucky Derby - Stretching the Limit of Attention Spans

The Soviet Union on the Eve of the Nazi Invasion

The Moon Even Makes The Rocks Beneath Your Feet Rise and Fall

Trump's Parade of Business Failures Continues

Happy Labor Day!

Would Your Grandma Call This Progress?

Demis Hassabis on How Far Ahead You Want to Be

Fed Chair Powell's legacy may be calmly navigating crazy times

The World Belongs to Optimists

We Stand United King Charles Claims

Roger Bacon and the Worst Kind of Ignorance

Free Will

From Impersonal Bureaucracy to the Politics of Theater

What Makes Us All the Same? The Fact That We're All Different

Harry Frankfurt and the Desires We Have (and the Desires That Have Us)

A Theory About Conspiracy Theories

Get Rich Quick

The Odds of Fame and Friendship

The Economist Forecasts Probable Democratic Win of House in 2026 Election

Information More Important Than Government?

US GDP and Wealth of Top 0.1%

The Possible Revival of Defenestration

Artificial Intelligence - Created to Navigate the Information Economy

Wake Up Call

The Strange Debate About God and Presidents That Persists

The Unexpected Consequence of Great Advances in Self-Driving Technology

JD Vance Told Hungarians What God Wants for Their Future

We Have Reasonable Expectations

$600 Billion Gain In Net Worth From a Year Ago for 10 Richest Americans

An Economic Stat Perhaps Deserving of a Short Story

Daryl Morey and 76ers Play-In Game Against Orlando Magic

JD Vance - Catholic Since 2019 - Is Already Offering Advice to the Pope on How to Be a Better Catholic

Refugees Admitted to the US Since Trump Took Office

How Busy am I?

An End to Orban's Illiberal Democracy in Hungary

Trump Derangement Syndrome

Did You Say Communist?

The Strongman Trap

JD Vance's Support for Hungarian Leader Orban Backfires

If You Build It, They ....

Today's Horoscope ... Sort of

Three Possible Outcomes of Trump's Madness

MAGA Core Principles

Travel Notes from 2010 London - What I’ve noticed about England

The Five Americas of New Politics for the Next Economy

Truly Confusing Basketball Tattoo

President Trump's Bizarre Easter Message 2026

How To Cut Your Odds of Dying in the Next Year in Half

Why Are We Going Back to the Moon?

When Mental Illness Becomes Policy

Open Presence

The Consistently Erratic Pattern of Job Gains and Losses During Trump's Second Term

John Wick 21

Post Information Economy Emergent Potential

Random Walk Theory Paradox

Americans Do Not Like Trump

The Deep Roots of Wealth Distribution

Favorite William James' Quotes

Economic Market Data for No Kings Protest March 2026

Action Figure

Stock Market Movement

Victor Hugo on an Idea Whose Time Has Come

Historian Barbara Fields On Frustration with Congress and Reality

One Way Jensen Huang's Token Economy Will Accelerate the Emergence of the Entrepreneurial Economy

Huey Long - Smartest Lunatic Ever

Money Saving Tip

The Barber's Poll

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations

Tired, Wired

Stock Market Performance Compared

Jensen Huang's Token Economy and Possible Consequences

Fed Chair Powell Talks to A Startling First in our Nation's History of Job Growth

Tesla Over-priced, Nvidia Under-priced

Obsessed About Time Travel

Believing Impossible Things

Relationships are Like Tennis

Time Travel First, Direction Next

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