Eschaton

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Wasn't knocking the country (highly recommend a visit!). Just an example of a country which is not seen as being as rich as, say, Germa...

Lazy Sunday. (actually busy Sunday).

We're a rich country and much of our wealth is sitting in the mountain caves of hoarders, ancient impotent dragons rolling around on the...

Things to do today.

When I was a young - and later since such things stay with you a bit - I thought everything got better. If an author wrote a good book, the...

And that ain't no malarkey.

Just kidding.

Maybe! The Conservative lead in the general election campaign has been halved in just one week, putting the UK in “hung parliament territor...

Related is that I have given this a lot of thought and you need *a lot* of money to buy your way out of most of the mundane daily hassles th...

People need money, of course, but the basic hassles of life are endless and mostly stupid. Time is money and also stress is, well, stressful...

Can't believe The Kids Today want free college. Back in my day, I worked a summer job to pay for it!

Tomorrow is Saturday, Saturday.

Mayo Pete. If you think that a worker who didn’t go to college should pay for college for a CEO’s kid, then @PeteButtigieg isn’t your cand...

No idea. Johnny Depp is producing a musical about the life of Michael Jackson that will be told from the perspective of the late singer’s f...

All of our choices are constrained by cost and circumstances and I'm really not one who thinks taking public transit is some moral virtu...

Gotta play Stairway.

They are only somewhat hard to make good if they are big.