In response to Tuesday’s post “Numbers Matter,” a reader commented, “Still, is it not an accomplishment of monumental proportions for Trump, against such slings and arrows, to hold even a 37 percent approval?” If Comrade Trump had seen this response, he probably would have tweeted, “Blog agrees my approval rating is the most ‘monumental … Read more
Synchronicity is a concept, first introduced by analytical psychologist Carl Jung, which holds that events are “meaningful coincidences” if they occur with no causal relationship yet seem to be meaningfully related. (Wikipedia) Early Sunday morning I received an email from a reader asking if I was aware of the protest in Charlottesville, Virginia (where we … Read more
On January 27, 2017, The New Yorker published an article by Adam Gopnik titled, “Orwell’s 1984 and Trump’s America.” Gopnik admits he had never been a fan of the 1949 classic about a dystopian future, describing it as “too pat” and rooted in the Brits’ immediate post-WWII dissatisfaction with rationing and general pessimism about … Read more
Despite economic and social theories which suggest individuals and civilizations will, in most instances, behave in their own self-interest, it seems there are more and more cases where the opposite is true. This human condition was most famously articulated by Pogo creator Walt Kelly (1913-1973) on a poster he created to promote the first … Read more
The date is March 8, 2017. It was International Women’s Day. And in honor of the celebration and as a reminder Wall Street and corporate America are still largely male-dominated, a new fixture appeared on State Street in the heart of New York’s financial district. Under the cloak of darkness, sponsors installed a 50 … Read more