Atlanta, GA April 12, 2020 Back in the Mesozoic Era…about six weeks ago…we entered Lent, and have since wandered in a hell of a wilderness. Satan seemed everywhere, but even he could offer little to tempt God’s children…or to compete with government largesse Bread? That’s fine. But what we really needed was toilet paper, fake […]
Atlanta, GA April 6, 2020 I must reluctantly confess that I used to teach Economics at Stanford. I may as well plead guilty. A mediocre prosecutor, or a first-year Law student, could secure a quick conviction. While pursuing my MBA at the University of San Francisco, I worked a couple semesters as a teaching assistant […]
Atlanta, GAMarch 32, 2020 March is supposed to come in like a lion and out like a lamb. In some sense, this one assuredly did. Roadways, sidewalks, and subways are certainly quieter than they were four weeks ago. And most of us feel as if we’d been sheared. I almost can’t remember what people were […]
Atlanta, GAMarch 28, 2020 This week Cobb County instructed its residents to “shelter in place.” The City of Atlanta was placed under lockdown a few days earlier. Our wise overlords have ordered us to stay home, excepting trips to the grocery store, pharmacy, or vet. If we had a pot dispensary nearby, that’d probably be […]
Atlanta, GA March 22, 2020 Randolph Bourne observed that war is the health of the state. So are war analogies. Particularly those with obscure enemies and no clear definition of victory. The War on Poverty. The War on Drugs. The War on Terror. All undefined, all un-winnable, all unending. And all profitable…at least to a […]
Atlanta, GA March 17, 2020 Do you have any homework? – Me It’s all homework. – Alexander On this St Patrick’s Day, the leprechauns are silent, the parades are stilled, and rivers in Chicago and Savannah remain blue (or brown). Only our envy is green. We crave the happy memories of simpler times…when we thought our […]
Atlanta, GA March 8, 2020 I learned a couple days ago that I have been quarantined. Or perhaps Columbus has been quarantined. Whichever side of the door is locked, I was told not travel there this week. Apparently a bug flapped its wings across the Pacific and over the Himalayas, causing tornadoes in hospitals, airports, […]
Atlanta, GA February 17, 2020 During an unknown moment and motion several months ago, I apparently shifted my right shoulder so as to offend the gods of human kinesiology. It was unintentional. I was unaware at the time that I had even done it. I’m still not sure that I did. But the ligamental and […]