People of the Past
Empire of Distrust
The Last Analyst
“Oh, What’ll You Do Now?”
On Action in the Face of Destruction "I’m a-goin’ back out ’fore the rain starts a-fallin’" -Bob Dylan, A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall (1963) Is…
Long Live All Who Can’t Be Fooled
A poem by HK & The Saltimbanks This is my first post in a couple of weeks. I intend on blogging more in the nearby…
Dutch Debate is Dead
Debate Remains Dead. And They've Killed It. Listen to this article A popular song about the Covid restrictions was ‘We’ve Lost Dancing’ in 2021. In…
All Talk, No Action
Journalism Since the Great Financial Crisis In early 2009 I attended a memorable panel discussion at Columbia University’s Journalism School in New York. A handful…
Empire of Distrust
Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not exist without good." The good…
Until Morale Improves
"The beatings will continue until morale improves." ~Cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe (1936) Many years ago a friend of mine was managing a sales team.…
De ‘hamsterwiel’-jaren
Waar ging het mis? Zal het straks mis gaan, is het al mis gegaan, of allebei? Voormalig econoom en oud-werknemer van Lehman Brothers Michael Krieger,…
From Ponzi to Ponzi
I met Bernie Madoff at a party in Florida. It was just a year or so before December 2008, when he got arrested and began…
The Daily Boycott
The boycott is incredibly powerful as a means to dismantle and undermine anything unrighteous. It has been a few years since I have spent a…
Old Wild Horses
All wisdom found outside the rational mind has consistently received a bad rap, particularly during the last fifty to one hundred years. Much attention was…
People of the Past
Much of our modern world depends on selling the future. When selling anything from mortgages to new medication, the latest vacuum cleaner or tickets to…
Marx Attacks!
Jordan Peterson recently made an attempt to equate philosopher Karl Marx (1818-1883) to the devil, but this was nothing but an insult to the devil…
Empire of Distrust
Centuries ago, the Italian philosopher and priest Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) wrote, "Good can exist without evil, whereas evil can not exist without good." The good…
Computer Still Says No
Humor is often prophetic. The sketch from Little Britain –‘Computer says No’– is exactly twenty years old. An unfriendly, cold-hearted hospital receptionist conveniently suspends all…
