Recent content by pono1

You're correct...there is no conclusion...

In the scheme of history, 250 years is a close cry. Today's world order did not spontaneously arrive on the scene: it's inherited from the institutions and events of the past. Washington and Jefferson are two examples of people who lived and participated in a time and place shaped through...

Agree with most all of this. It's a not-so pleasant state at the national level in American politics, with the amount of corporate influence. And yet the wealthy have always had some influence at the national level, starting with the Revolution...Washington and Jefferson, for example, were not...

and Francis Bacon

The moon might make for a quiet getaway. Else Abilene Texas for dinner.

Rome burned. Inexplicably,

bottles of beer

Like all caves,

moment of self-aggrandizement

a Watercooler post

of Middlesex, proving

eternal dinky-donut hole

Einstein once said,

Of course the U.S. already has socialized medicine--medicare and medicaid, which cover some, but not all, of the fringes. From one point of view ObamaCare proposes to reduce the fringes.

fish named humuhumunukukuapua'a (though his friends just called him Bill)