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Category Archives: Sociocultural
Ban Books and More
As I write this we are in the midst of a national effort to ban ideas. This isn’t anything new; our politicians and pundits have been involved in what has become known as the “culture wars” for years, and previous … Continue reading
Real Magic
Arthur had come to the conclusion that even after years of dedicated effort, after all of those hours and hours of lonely practice, staring at himself in front of a mirror, watching attentively to micro-adjust his movements and his statements, … Continue reading
Supreme Ego
In June this year the Supreme Court vacated Roe v. Wade with an extreme, repetitive, and oddly argued opinion that will, despite assurances to the contrary, threaten a constellation of basic rights that have been built up over the past … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Sociocultural
Tagged abortion, Casey, Christian, Dobbs, Eisenstadt, Federalist, Griswold, LGBTQ, Loving, marriage, Obergefell, originalist, religion, Roe, Supreme Court
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No Such Thing
One simple economic principle that is all-too often ignored is the one represented by the acronym TANSTAAFL. Never mind that in order to create an easily pronounced phonetic entity the short instructive declaration behind TANSTAAFL has been often expressed as … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Sociocultural
Tagged brokerage, cost, economics, exchange, free, free lunch, investment, PFOF, services, stock market, TANSTAAFL
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Big Boy Pants?
In recent decades we, as a society, have made progress in removing many of the vestiges of sexist behavior and thought from our society. For many of us it’s not enough progress, to be certain, just as for those groups … Continue reading
Posted in Sociocultural
Tagged anti-social, balls, domineering, masculinity, negative, progress, sexism
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Imperial Failure
The 2022 invasion of Ukraine should not have been a surprise. Not to anyone. It was, in large part, a result of the imperial imperative; the desire of an egotistical leader with dictatorial powers to reconstruct the global prestige and … Continue reading
Posted in Sociocultural
Tagged expansion, Imperial, invasion, military, occupation, propaganda, Putin, Russia, Ukraine, war
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Deniability
I’ve always been a company man. It always made perfect sense to me. Starting with the fact that I was, and would in all likelihood remain, a mid-level functionary in a large business establishment, it seemed that it would be … Continue reading
Posted in Satire, Sociocultural
Tagged accountability, ambiguity, analysis, anonymity, corporate, management, mission statement, strategy
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Maldistribution and its Consequences
In last month’s post I noted that the past four decades have demonstrated that there is a significant amount of surplus in the economic system and that that surplus, obviously and unfortunately, is not widely shared within our population. Benefits … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Sociocultural
Tagged depression, eonomy, equities, greater fool, income, inequality, inflation, instability, investment, New Deal, panic, real estate, recession, stocks, wealth
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Maldistribution and its Discontents
In the United States the past four decades have demonstrated that there is a significant amount of surplus in the economic system. That surplus, unfortunately, is not widely shared within our population. Benefits at the top income levels have grown … Continue reading
Posted in Economy, Sociocultural
Tagged corruption, depression, economy, Gilded Age, government, income, inequality, plutocrat, recession, wages, worker
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Hair!
Visualize Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini and Al Qaeda’s Osama bin Laden and orthodox rabbis and ZZ Top and Duck Dynasty. What do these people have in common? If you’re thinking that I made that question too easy by including too many … Continue reading