When I was an irresponsible teenager, a couple of friends and I went fishing for native brook trout in the Smoky Mountains National Park. We…
Fishy Global Warming Story
Posted in Climate
Author: skepticalobserver
Labeling and Limiting Ourselves and Others
Posted in National Debt, Politics, Responsibility, and Uncategorized
David Brooks is spending a lot of time thinking lately and coming up with some good points such as in the attached column. We are…
Irrational Government Meddling: Stop It!
Posted in Government, and Taxes
There are at least five good reasons government should not meddle in the affairs of private free enterprise. There is no accountability because most or…
“Cost” of Health Care: Biggest & Ugliest Elephant in the Room
Posted in Health Care, and Health Insurance
I remember in my young adult years a common subject of discussion was the “cost of building” a new home in a particular location. I…
Now that “health care,” a euphemism for insurance, is back on the table, I thought I transfer some more stuff from the old blog to…
This was first posted on my old blog in September, 2014. I was reminded of it by this news item of a non-fatal shooting at…
The Decade of Our Discontent
Posted in Economics, and Government
The announcement a few days ago of real % increase in GDP for the first quarter of only 0.7% suggested it might be time to…
This is an interesting hot news item of the day, just one example of the coverage in the clip above, about President Trump’s musings on…
Why So Quiet?
Posted in Politics
I see there are very few new posts on this blog since the November election of Donald Trump. And this in spite of the fact…
Public Option – Creeping Coverage – POCC
Posted in Health Care, and Health Insurance
(With apologies to blog post subscribers because I mistakenly “Published” a work in progress that had some old data.) It is very difficult to get…