Atlanta, GA April 12, 2022 Last week we fingered funny money as the cause of most modern maladies. We observed how it depresses purchasing power, distorts the economy, diverts resources, queers investments, and encourages conflict. As noted in that essay, sound money tends to reduce time preference. If people are confident their money will retain […]
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 […]
Glenn, MIJuly 25, 2019 Last week’s heat has subsided. Morning coffee and evening wine once again yearn to be consumed under the comfort of sweaters or the cover of blankets. Like a liberating force expelling a foreign army, howling winds and torrential rain made an amphibious landing over the weekend, chased the occupying heat from […]
Glenn, MIJuly 21, 2019 When sorrows come They come not as single spiesBut as battalions– Hamlet When it rains, it pours -Same idea, with less pomposity Slave-driven triremes carried the material goods and mental heritage of Greece and Rome through the shoals and storms of the Mediterranean and, over the tide of time, to us. Columbus […]
Atlanta, GAJune 10, 2018 We try (ahem…) not to discuss politics in our emails. So instead, we will discuss politicians! Or, rather, one politician… A “low key simple guy”, as he described himself earlier this week…new to the arena but long in the game, raring for an upset in his rookie race, riling the Deep […]
High Above Paducah, KYJune 1, 2018 Prior to my last email, I don’t recall (or was oblivious to) offending anyone for quite some time. At least not seriously, and certainly not intentionally. These notes usually generate a handful of responses, letting me know they were received and (ostensibly) appreciated. My last missive, like a vulgar […]
May 20, 2018 Atlanta, GA The phone rang, interrupting our sleep and, like a brick thru a monastery window, shattering the serenity of our Barnsley cabin. Rita, maternal instinct conquering better judgment, answered. “Good morning, David…how are you?” As the reply came, Rita yawned, rubbed her eyes, opened them slowly…then suddenly. She lifted herself on […]
Adairsville, GAMay 18, 2018 One decade after the US army pushed the Cherokee out, and two decades before it poured blue-bellied soldiers in, Godfrey Barnsley constructed for his wife an ornate Italianate villa in the Appalachian foothills northwest of Atlanta. The discovery of Dahlonega gold inspired the Cherokee removal; the retention of Confederate revenue incited […]
Atlanta, GAApril 14, 2018 I spent this week in St Louis, after being in Charleston last week, after returning the prior week from St Louis, after working the previous week from Portland, after spending the week before in St Louis. Fortunately, I am in Atlanta thru next week, providing time to switch the laundry in […]