My family has been in America a long time. My first descendant was a Dutch immigrant to New Amsterdam in the 1630’s named Wyckoff. He was an indentured servant who rose to […]
A Bridge to Nowhere
The Systems Problem of Mass Shootings
Mass shootings are a systems problem; a problem that involves complex environments in which multiple inputs of varying degrees of dependency act together to produce some systemic outcome. And while we may […]
To the Moon
Second only to the Gettysburg address for me…one of the great of American Speeches given September 12, 1962 at Rice Stadium in Houston Texas by President John F. Kennedy. Enjoy…50 years to […]
The Dog We Feed
The most eloquently stated argument against the centrally planned economies of socialism that I’ve come across is expressed by Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek. In The Fatal Conceit: Errors in Socialism, Hayek lays out […]
What Now?
Originally posted on Chartwell West:
I’m not a liberal. I’m not a safe space, social crusader. I’m not a sore loser who can’t get over the fact that Hillary Clinton wasn’t elected…
On America
For every charge over Omaha Beach, there’s a My Lei. For every Apollo 11, there’s a Tuskegee Syphilis experiment. All our heroes have the same problem heroes always have. They’re people. And […]
We Have No Excuse
I came down to my kitchen yesterday morning and realized that I was running short on the lion’s mane, Scandinavian made mushroom coffee that I drink. I spoke a few words into […]
Thoughts on Travel Ball
My 10-year-old has caught the bug. He’s a baseball junky. He can’t get enough. And so, this weekend we started down the dark journey that’s been described to me in horror by […]
Book Review: Tyler Cowen’s Big Business, A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero
If it seems like I just wrote a review of a new Tyler Cowen book, that’s because I just did. He’s since written another though. With six months between releases, the Tyler Cowen […]
Overlord
“Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based upon the […]
