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As we ponder the important issues of our times, those of us who pay attention to such matters realize that our leaders speak in a peculiar cant, a jargon of neologisms and bizarre uses of familiar terms. As a service, I will attempt to explicate some of… more »

Random musings... The fabulous amounts of money involved in the global sports-as-entertainment industry should be a signal to the public to demand more scrutiny. The recent announcement that as many as 650 soccer matches, including World Cup and Europe… more »

I always find the “big vs.small” government discussion a bit fatuous. “Big government” is a pejorative, and whatever connotation supposedly attaches to the term is fogged over by the very sarcasm of its employment. The proper role of government is to ac… more »

So a man puts a gun to his own head and begins screaming, " If you don't do what I want, I will shoot myself."  There is a murmur from the crowd around him, but no one steps forward to engage him. What's left for him to do but pull the trigger? Such is… more »

I anticipated that the Super Bowl would be a close game and, in the end, it was, as the 49er's had a last-chance shot in the closing minutes to win. Yet, it was a strange, almost bizarre game in the way that football can sometimes be, as captured in the… more »

Oh, boy- a big day leading us into The Big Weekend. This morning's jobs reports shows continued but modest growth in  private-sector employment.  The big news on the jobs front was the upward revision of the November and December figures, meaning that… more »