LDAHL
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Why the obsessive need to slot people into this peculiar binary? Why is it not acceptable to make a simple judgment of “pretty bad” without...

If you aren’t prepared to insist that Trump is the worst thing ever, down to the reductio ad hitlerum level, you are construed as a defending him. ...

Pivotal as in changing the course of our history? No. The first case of contesting election results in the courts? No.

I’m inclined to agree with Alan. I think there is a bit of recency bias at work here that continually makes us think we are at a pivotal moment in...

I tried to interest my kid in “Aesop and Son” and “Commander McBragg”, but it seems that if it isn’t Japanese it’s not worth bothering with.

I think you mean transcendentalism. Apart from Emerson, who I saw as more preacher and promoter than original thinker, I don’t think they left much...

That’s a good insight. Once you’ve reached a certain level of age and experience, maybe a guy who held the line against the barbarians has more to...

I read “Walden” and “The Meditations” at about the same time in my high school career, and was very impressed by both at the time. I tried reading...

That would make sense. They probably skew older than the general population due to the percentage of retirees in that area.

It got up to twenty degrees in my little Wisconsin city today, and there are kids walking around in shorts.

Got our first dose of the Moderna vaccine today. Our second will be on St Patrick’s day, which should make it early to remember. We were in our...

Slowed a bit, but by no means over.

Why was that?

It may be the Alzheimer’s talking, but I suspect it’s more complicated than that. I think there may be an opportunity in the cities, for instance,...

When you hear complaints about the “skills gap”, it’s never about a shortage of English majors. I agree that we place too much social weight on what...

Oh I have no doubt there’s some blood on the shirt. I’m just questioning the effectiveness of the strategy of tarring the GOP with the whole “orange...

I have one of those great new ergonomic shovels with the kink in the handle that saves your back.

I don’t think the point of this impeachment was the former President’s guilt or innocence relative to a riot. The outcome was always a foregone...

One article I read said that there are problems, and then there are First World problems, and then there are San Francisco problems.

Is that what they call a meronym?

I understand NYC is also considering a lottery system for its gifted and talented schools to change the shading of student bodies. Vonnegut’s...

I salute her for highlighting the need for a capable US Space Force. You never know where the Rothschilds will strike next.

I don’t think it’s right to hold the child responsible for the parents’ idiocy.

That’s not very specific. How is Germany or the EU or the world at large better off due to her remarkable leadership?

I see GME is down 84% this week.

What would some of her impressive accomplishments include?

I see the SF city government is suing the school board to compel them to submit and execute a plan for re-opening. This may distract from the...

It’s interesting to see how the various US states are comparing in vaccination rates. I wouldn’t have expected West Virginia or North Dakota as...

As Elvis Costello once sang, “I used to be disgusted, now I’m just amused”. When you see a city that has trouble keeping human waste off its...

This is excellent advice. Even if someone is shy of equities, I think maintaining some level of liquid reserves in bonds or cash is important. Not...

My guess is that water rights will become an even larger issue in coming years. I live on one of the Great Lakes, which contain something like a...

One with government guaranteed educational borrowing capacity. Although you could make the argument that the results of following someone called...

These sad situations highlight the importance of getting things in writing through POAs or other documents before decline sets in. It at least...

So this young man speculated with money he couldn’t afford to lose in options and lost it all. Then he decided to speculate some more using federal...

I don’t see that working unless the company was already among the walking dead, in which case it might accelerate the process. If there is value...

I would think it would be very difficult to profitably short a viable firm out of existence. I would also think it unwise to demand either a hedge...

And even well-resourced large players don’t seem to be able to consistently beat market averages. Often, their astrophysicists seem no more effective...

Hedge funds can do either. They are private pools of capital that can take long term investment positions or legally speculate as they please. In...

There are many ways options or futures can limit risk for shareholders, or producers and consumers of commodities. As to speculation: if Party A...

I only buy them through mutual funds. I’m willing to pay a bit more to have somebody else do the credit research and bookkeeping, and to be more...

I was stationed outside Boston for three years. I knew fighter pilots who hesitated to drive there. When I moved back to the Midwest, it took nearly...

I wonder how representative some of these media stereotypes have been of the population and culture of their time. The fifties housewife, the sixties...

I don’t think Lord Acton or Edmund Burke have anything to worry about.

I always thought that “socialist snowplows” meme was a bit misinformed. In a bygone age, I was the business manager of a county highway department....