Space

I don’t understand the allure of space. Why do we spend millions of dollars on big smoking rockets that carry us to a place where, if the tin can pops and ejects us, we will be dead within minutes. I can walk out my back door and sit comfortably in a lawn chair for...

British Empire

“Never since the heroic days of Greece has the world had such a sweet, just, boyish master.” (referring to the British Empire) – George Santayana 

Centralized Decisions

“In the long run the aggregate of decisions of individual businessmen, exercising individual judgment in a free economy, even if often mistaken, is less likely to do harm than the centralized decisions of a government; and certainly the harm is likely to be...

Relational Disappointment

All relationships are disappointments. Let us consider this, not so we will despair, but to open a window to let smoke out of the room. The habit of repressing the disappointments of our relationships is a strategy to numb the injuries of them. Remember the line: The...