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Good afternoon! We’ll start today with a quick quote: Socialism-with-power’s Unexamined Legacy: “No cause, ever, in the history of all mankind, has produced more cold-blooded tyrants, more slaughtered innocents, and more orphans than socialism with power...

Waffle House Democracy. Mostly Irrelevant quote of the week: “Something joyously democratic surrounds the wayward cross section of humanity that gathers at a waffle house in the dead of night.” Lance McMillan Reminded me of a time when I had belt notches...

Good afternoon, I’m not very familiar with this 1960’s economist, but I liked this twisty quote of his for its loaded nature. Both countries mentioned tell a story of enormous, and even well-proven economic success, followed by decades of systemic mismanagement...

Good afternoon, jumping right in with a “…He said what?!” To the left (so to speak) an AI-assisted image of socialist Utopian Charles Fourier, who envisioned a super-duper equalized world, resulting, inexplicably, a navy of domesticated dolphins, who...

Good afternoon, You can’t study history and not see vibrations shimmering in our current experience. In a recent treatment on Peter the Great, (Russian Tzar) it was made clear to me that, although not the only unruly and unprincipled dictator, (not by...

Question: What body of water separates Victoria, BC from Washington State? Answer: The Strait of Juan de Fuca Question: When did gold actually cause inflation? Answer: Read on. Juan is a Spanish name, like so many other placenames that linger on the BC...

Today we start with charts because – Oil -- and Middle East conflict. Hopefully things do not get worse, but a brief chat about the possible impacts is provided below: A broader Middle East war could upend oil supply (see chart below from Bloomberg):...

How to help your daughter find a decent husband: I had a local shop create a t-shirt for one of our daughters around the time she left home – it said: “Eschew Obfuscation.” And no, that’s not about an old lady sneezing. But if, like me, your edumacashion...