The Simple Life
Just because the year has ended doesn’t mean that life as we understand it has to end.
Rating Confusion
Of course we all know the law of unintended consequences, but some of us don’t know that Robert Burns — Scotland’s eternal poet laureate — …
Strike it Rich
Some people are lucky, some aren’t. Take Larry Langford, a maven of machines of chance. He’s one of the blessed ones. Lucky Larry won more …
Doesn’t Take a Weatherman
I’m in a lousy mood since the weatherman just ruined my weekend. “Torrential storms, hail, and frozen cannonballs,” she ranted. Reality – nothing but blue …
Self-Abuse
Wise men, from the first millennia suburbs of Athens to today’s Ph.D.s in linguistics at MIT, have long observed that if a problem, social or …
Fire at Will
I find myself in no-man’s land defending (almost) the unimaginable action of a government official firing the CEO of a publicly owned company. Stormed at …
Buffett Gives It Away
Warren Buffett, a man fattened by the virtues of capitalism, told the Congress recently that he favored the estate tax, which for the next couple …
Rank and Russia
In the ’30s and ’40s, when the world was young and naive, Freud and his fellow psychotherapists had legions of followers. Theories of human behavior …