Jekyll Island, GA May 14, 2022 In 1804, on the right bank of the Hudson in Weehauken, New Jersey, a duel took place. The sitting Vice President of the United States shot and killed the first Secretary of the Treasury. Aside from becoming increasingly uncouth, dueling was illegal in New Jersey. So with Alexander Hamilton […]
Jekyll Island, GA May 14, 2022 On Sapelo Island, I had to constantly remind myself where we were. It felt more like a foreign country than a secluded island in my own state. And, in some sense, it is. Its dedicated citizens have a unique culture and a proud history that is being pressed to […]
Jekyll Island, GA May 13, 2022 In February of 1733, the frigate Anne approached the open mouth of the Savannah River. One hundred and fourteen passengers disembarked, and commenced a colony. Within three decades, more nefarious ships would fill that harbor. For a couple days, we’re exploring a community that descends from their “cargo.” The original charter […]
Atlanta, GA April 25, 2022 Last week, another brick fell from the wall. For twenty-four months they’d been mortared into place, two weeks at a time: shelter-in-place, social distance, stay “essential”, swab your nose, work from home, wear a mask, receive a shot, inject another one, get a booster, and follow “the science”. The masons […]
Atlanta, GA April 4, 2022 A couple months ago, we noted the tendency of insufferable do-gooders and self-righteous busybodies to get everything wrong, magnify or invent problems, and then do everything in their power to make them worse. By doing so, they increase their sense of self-worth…and can inflate their dollars of financial worth…by diverting […]
Atlanta, GA March 26, 2020 Since at least the Enlightenment, and perhaps back to Bacon, the wolf of politics has disguised itself as a sheep of science. It fleeces its putative shepherds by cloaking its commands in the wool of “Reason”. After the French Revolution, the exaltation of the “expert” replaced the preeminence of the […]
Atlanta, GA March 20, 2022 Well, I guess we’re never getting that hour back. Even when government does the right thing, it does the wrong thing. Last week, Senate voted to remove the ridiculous ritual of adjusting clocks. But it did so by keeping the wrong time. Starting next year….assuming the House and president agree […]
Atlanta, GA March 12, 2022 “When goods don’t cross borders, soldiers will.” – attributed to Frédéric Bastiat. Strange as it sounds, there’s a move afoot to nominate Vladimir Putin for a Nobel Prize. Not for peace. But for medicine. After two years of nonsensical and tyrannical tactics to conquer Covid by controlling us, all it […]
Atlanta, GA March 5, 2022 Yesterday we trod the long road from the inception of Ukraine a couple thousand years ago to its most recent invasion last week. Today, as we try to understand what’s happening now, we take comfort knowing one thing for sure: we can’t. And that the closer we look, the farther […]
Atlanta, GA March 4, 2022 “The Ukraine is a very fertile country, but by no means agreeable.” – Madame de Staël Americans who two months ago didn’t know Ukraine from a ukulele have been manipulated into posting blue and gold profile pictures, insisting upon “no-fly zones”, and unequivocally condemning anyone who questions what might be happening […]