minority opinion

  They are not little

We lose ourselves in things we love.  We find ourselves there, too.

People are not of symmetrical importance in each others memories.

 The past is never dead. It’s not even past

You've got to know when to hold 'em Know when to fold 'em Know when to walk away And know when to run  You never count your mone...

  It’s never fifty-fifty. It’s always seventy-thirty, or sixty-forty.

Meanwhile at a small Balkan country 

A short comment on Greek elections

Like any dealer he was watching for the card That is so high and wild He'll never need to deal another

What was the last time you did something for the first time ?

Two recent cases Down Under show how dangerous Twittermobs can be. By BRENDAN O’NEILL One of the curious things about the twenty-firs...

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‘Positive Money’ and the fallacy of the need for a state money producer By Detlev Schlichter I am usually inclined to encourage the i...

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No easy way out  By George Friedman The murders of cartoonists who made fun of Islam and of Jews shopping for their Sabbath meals b...

The Promise of Progress By Matthew J. Franck F or much of the Cold War, George Orwell’s novel  1984  eclipsed Aldous Huxley’s earlier...

Draghi’s Money Printing Bazooka by Author Pater Tenebrarum The Utterly Absurd Becomes the “New Normal”   “Bankers at the World Econ...

Of Papers and Meetings …   by Pater Tenebrarum "In climate research and modeling, we should recognize that we are dealing with ...