Over almost 52 years of marriage, my wife and I have rented eight and purchased eight residences. So we have considerable experience with both renting…
Buy a House to Make a Home
Posted in Government, Inflation, and Investing
Author: skepticalobserver
No Satisfaction? (1/4/2013)
Posted in Government, and Management
I thought of the Rolling Stones song in connection with my probably developing reputation as a permanent malcontent, never happy with the way things are,…
“Christianity has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and not tried.” – G. K. Chesterton What made me think of…
Gun regulation has crowded fiscal and economic difficulties out of the news, at least for a while, and has prompted a look at the data…
Quality, System Dynamics, Romney, Trump, and Clinton
Posted in Government, Management, and Politicians
Originally Posted 8/25/2012 – Additional Introduction Added 8/7/2016) Below is a post I did during the last presidential campaign explaining why I supported Mr. Romney…
It seems to me that if estates are to be taxed, there should be some consideration for the number of heirs involved. A parent should…
Excise Taxes, Lobbying, and Our Future
Posted in Deficits, Government, National Debt, and Taxes
Worrying about how we fund federal spending, I noticed that in 1960, federal excise tax revenue funded 11.6% of federal spending, but, in 2015, it…
I’m so far out of touch that I didn’t even realize sociologists had abandoned the idea of The United States as a “melting pot,” most…
Language, Culture, and Mosque Difficulties (8/16/2010)
Posted in Culture and Diversity, and Terrorism
(The difficulties have not improved since I wrote this six years ago.) I recall a conversation with my Japanese assistant during my early 1990’s Tokyo…