Tuesday It is painful to watch the struggles of those blindsided by what is now a recession. Does one harden one’s heart and look the other way? That is easy to say, but not so easy to do. My restaurant had a regular customer for almost thirty years. One day, a few months ago, she approached me, as a friend, with tears in her eyes at her humiliation, and … [Read more...]
Early Retirement
Monday I see another report about a young couple that have surmounted the work trap and managed to retire by the age of forty. Well, actually, I didn’t read the article, but that is what I surmise from the headline. From the number of such headlines I would assume that it is an aspiration in the peculiar zeitgeist that passes as the modern world. Why would … [Read more...]
Social Credit Score USA
Saturday Social media has now entered even more dangerous territory. Your smart phone is much too smart for not just your own good, but your safety and your ability to transact and travel freely. We have entered a dystopian socialist nightmare where good and decent people will be penalized until they see the light. And now President Trump is, … [Read more...]
Pol Pot
Friday Pol Pot was a stain on the 20th century. Not so much for the amount of slaughter that he perpetrated, but for the crazed rationale behind it. Socialist slaughters were common and some produced a far larger body count than Pol Pot (Hitler was responsible for around 70 million deaths, Stalin and Mao were not far behind), but Pol Pot killed all those that … [Read more...]
Western Civilization
Thursday Western Civilization, was always more a concept than a geographical location. A combination of appalling standards of education and mass immigration of primitive people from alien cultures means that Western Civilization no longer exists. A superficial façade is all that remains of the most decent civilization ever structured. Even that is now on the … [Read more...]