Atlanta, GA November 24, 2022 Three years ago, on Thanksgiving Day in 2019, we inverted the script, put our tongue in our cheek, and derided all the things for which we’re eternally ungrateful. A few months later, those annoyances would seem like quaint irritants of a naïve age. Since that time, it’s as if we’ve […]
Lexington, KY November 21, 2022 Last month, I participated in a charity golf event. The day before, for the first time in weeks, it rained in north Georgia. Showers continued thru the night, stopping just as we were supposed to play. Unfortunately, the soggy conditions caused the Club to prohibit carts from leaving their path. […]
Frankfort, KYNovember 20, 2022 The United States were founded on principles of state sovereignty and local government. If two peoples were incompatible, there was no sense imposing a bad marriage. That was the rationale for thirteen states seceding from Great Britain. It became the reason future societies might separate from those states (and one we […]
Atlanta, GA November 16, 2022 Chesterton advised to “not ever take a fence down till you understand why it was put up.” But sometimes they come down whether we like it or not. The previous owners of our house had some reason to line each side of the property with a double-rail border fence. We […]
Atlanta, GA November 9, 2022 For several years, our long-time housekeeper has been embezzling money, breaking our things, siphoning our gas, and sharing pornography with our impressionable kids. One day, this uppity servant stole our keys and locked us inside. She’d let us out periodically, but only to go to specific places for certain things. […]
Atlanta, GA November 4, 2022 Imagine going to the doctor with unfamiliar chest pains. The physician hears your symptoms, drops everything, and immediately suggests open-heart surgery. Just to be safe. You question the decision, and ask for some tests, additional data, or perhaps another opinion. You also try to inform him of other health issues […]
Atlanta, GA October 15, 2022 “There must be something about Russia; like a chorus girl on the make for a rich, old man, she seems to attract degenerate empires.” – Bill Bonner We’re teetering on the cusp of the Fourth Turning. And the incorrigible idiots who’ve put us on the precipice seem bound and determined […]
Atlanta, GA October 5, 2022 A couple years ago, we stirred the pot by assessing every occupant of the Oval Office (or whatever office preceded it). We sampled the executive stew, appreciated the few palatable portions, and spit out the most rancid elements. Now, only eighteen months later, we must revise the recipe. The best […]
Auburn, AL September 15, 2022 Mark Twain said that while history doesn’t repeat, it often rhymes. Today the stanza and meter brought back memories. My younger son is a senior in high school. He’s taken his tests, compiled his grades, and is applying to college. Our elder son went thru the same process three years […]
Atlanta, GA September 7, 2022 September, as Mark Twain noted, is the most dangerous month to speculate in stocks…”along with July, January, April, November, May, March, October, June, December, August – and February.” Since the Second World War, September is the only month with negative average market returns. But as we wade into dangerous seasonal […]