When, in a society, you have developed the methods to turn a profit when the market goes up, and you have developed the methods to earn a profit when the market goes down, then you can fully expect that the market will not remain stable for long. Eventually someone will pluck the string. Then, in …
Tag Archives: politics
Travel Up
It has been almost 10 years (September 2015) since my first-ever international airfare trip, to Toronto Ontario; and my tonight wanderlust is stronger than ever. I’ve hit a point in my life where my air miles is higher than my ground years, and now I want to leave the confines of my local country to …
Current Political Discourse
A: “Stop setting the house on fire!”B: “What? I’m not, and you don’t have any proof.”A: “The matches are in your hand!”B: “It’s not illegal to have matches.”A: “No, it’s not, but you’re setting the fucking house on fire!”B: “Sir, I’m gonna have to ask you to calm down.”
Small Talk, Big Talk
What do you call someone who can make anything political? Like, you could be having an innocuous conversation with someone, all small talk, and then they go off into the weeds? “Nice cool breezy weather we got today, yeah?”“Not as cold as the day we finally get all of them dirty sumbitches outta Congress an’ …
Service Civility
As a member of the ARRL, I get lots of email about radio (most of it sales material for their books and swag), but this afternoon I got a letter reiterating the core values of Amateur Radio. The most telling is the last paragraph: Amateur Radio is about development of communications and responsible public service. …