I just finished walking around the block here.

Walking is great -  no amazing.  Walking is divine solitude.  I walk a one mile loop, which takes me down a lonely, nay sparse, street, and then alongside an old high school repurposed at night into an adult learning center I think.  Tonight I walked by and glanced into the classrooms -  old, sad ( Read more... )

The Petito and Laundrie case is very sad.  I think if they catch him, I think morally speaking, that sometimes equal death is an unequal outcome, if that is what is meted out in the end.  Nor would the death penalty be an “equal death” in this case.   The place where Gabby died or was dropped, is a beautiful place for solitude, but in death, killed ( Read more... )

I have got a different feeling about things of late.

Actually in two ways.  First, although I think there is nothing that says that there should not have been a 30% or 50% drop in the stock market, say, a year ago, it didn't feel inevitable in the medium term at that time - psychologically it felt like a genuine "buy the dip" time.  Granted, value ( Read more... )

It is hard to be brave, but eternally damning to be cowardly.

Isn’t it funny that for liberals, incompetence is a saving grace, whereas for conservatives, it is a damning condemnation?

Yes, we are all up in arms and at each other's throats, many of us, at this time in this country - but at least it is us people arguing it out amongst ourselves which direction we will go.  It it not like this in all places.

If I had to hazard to wager a guess, I would guess that, given Pat’s discussions about rebalancing 30%-40% of the semiconductor supply chain to North America, and another like percentage in Europe, and given his discussions with world leaders and the Pope, I would say that his overall endgame is to provide something close to this rebalancing, ( Read more... )

With regard to the relationship between America and China, the great question of world economic policy has been settled by the science of economics -  true socialism or communism will never work.  Capitalist control of the economy using market forces has won, and will never decline.  The tendencies of the Chinese government to enforce controls over ( Read more... )

I think if we visualize ourselves in a knife fight, we tend to think we have lost if we are stabbed - but we should cultivate a wholly different attitude - if we are in a knife fight for example, and if they stab us and don't get our heart or neck, they are in trouble - they are too close to escape, and we will have our victory.  Again, I am too ( Read more... )

What is consciousness if not a continuous spark connecting personality, IQ, other basic traits, with memories? If the mechanism can be derived, and the specifics isolated, then perhaps we can have everlasting consciousness and therefore life.

Love,

Jeff