Trust none of what you hear, some of what you read, half of what you see– attributed to various writers Why this is a good thing is that once Real News becomes indistinguishable from Fake News in the media, then power…
Author: vassar
The Intellectual Yet Idiot, by Nassim Nicolas Taleb
(I have never published other men’s works here, but I want to introduce a singular mind to my readers, for he is a genuine scholar, yet shares the views I’ve written about for many years, albeit at the street level. Mr Taleb…
Distinguishing Donald Trump, A Man in the Trades
In 1944 Dwight Eisenhower was one of the most powerful men in the world. In June he was about to send hundreds of thousands of men into a battle, it’s outcome and the lives of those men very much in…