Le roi est mort; vive le roi!

Le roi est mort; vive le roi!

It was warm for November, at least by the standards of most of the men who had just arrived at Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, for the pending Trans-Atlantic voyage.

Trump, the NFL, and the American Tax Donkey

The Greatest Casualty in the recent “President Trump v. the NFL Kneelers” throwdown was, it turns out, the First Amendment. This era of News Media coverage of events will eventually be defined by the phrase, “Better to be First than Right!!”...

Term Limits III

Reduce the Market ItselfDonald Trump campaigned explicitly on term limits. His proposal was that Senators serve only two terms (for a total of 12 years) and that Congressmen and Congresswomen serve only 3 terms (a total of 6 years, for those of you who slept...

Term Limits II

How to Justify LegislationEvery problem, no matter how small or inconsequential, can never fail to be magnified, exaggerated, or – with a suitably agenda-driven Media – simply concocted out of whole cloth by partisan hacks and flacks, and then subsequently...

Life Lessons Learned the Hard Way: # 1

Learn (ideally, master) a completely impractical, useless skill. The more nonsensical and less practical it is or could possibly ever be, the better. Do it because you’ve always wanted to but thought it was silly. And get good at it. Get good enough that when...