Not Robin Hood. Not Lionhearted. Just Wise.

I think the leeches are the people who benefit from the military fighting in the Middle East to ensure your supply of oil, the NIH studying flu viruses and developing vaccines, OSHA keeping their workplace safe, and the Department of Labor limiting their work hours to a manageable level. The people who drive over federally funded bridges and interstates and accept federal student grants, and then claim the federal government is unresponsive and worthless, and say they don’t want to contribute to it, in fact, say they want to take it apart and return us to some kind of backward Articles of Confederation when we agreed in 1789 that that was a dumb idea.

Teachers and Undertakers

I was not invited to the economic meltdown. I went to work in a field with little prospect for financial advancement and infinite job security. (Teachers and undertakers remained solvent during the Great Depression. I’m the former.) Even worse: I didn’t invest. My only retirement savings has been through the state pension fund. I own my car, and […]

Today’s Good News

We need good news at the beginning of January. Several items today in New York Times pleased me. First of all, I smiled at the article describing the ad campaign put up by atheists in Britain. I have a soft spot for atheists. It’s a very reasonable position, often taken up by smart, sensitive people who […]