For Wonks Only A credit-based financial economy (as opposed to pure cash) depends on an ever-expanding outstanding level of credit for its survival. Without additional credit, […]

Goodnight Vietnam It was a matter of happenstance I suppose – certainly not serendipity. Our meeting may have been an inevitable coming together, but it was […]

Time (and Money) in a Cellphone Our modern age is becoming more virtual than physical, which I find increasingly depressing if only because I’ve failed to […]

ACHOO! There’s nothing like a good sneeze; maybe a hot shower or an ice cream sandwich, but no – nothing else even comes close. A sneeze […]

BOB. There is a tragic end to all living things: They stop living. Our Maine Coon “Kitty” of 14 years stopped living last week. Her name […]

The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; – William Butler […]

Most ‘Medieval’ In days of old when knights were bold and ladies most beholden straw seemed like silk and water, milk and silver almost golden Not […]

The Tipping Point I’ve spun a few yarns in recent years about my days as a naval officer; not, thank goodness, tales told by dead men, […]

Wounded Heart Joseph Schumpeter, the originator of the phrase “creative destruction; authored a less well-known corollary at some point in the 1930s. “Profit; he wrote, “is […]