…Donald Trump was probably the only political player who never wanted, nor needed, additional money. This is why Donald Trump is a political enigma, and the entire political class is unable to even begin to fathom his true political purposes…any…
Category: Bureaucrcy
Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, by Vassar
Meet Jack Goldfarb, He was God-Father to my first wife. In 1933 a Hungarian Jew got off the boat at Ellis Island, looking for a place to start a knitwear cut- and-sew operation. His name was Jack Goldfarb and he…
Russia-Bad vs Ukraine-Bad, and the “I Can Train Monkeys to Make Underwear” thesis of Post-Modern Business
Part 2 As I related in Part 1, I came to Kentucky by accident in 1979, thinking I was en route to Germany to work for my old boss from Japan, as an Army civilian lawyer. Only Jimmy Carter, who…
Abandoning the Covenant
There’s a film still in theaters I think you should see. It’s called “The Covenant” and is a Guy Ritchie film, starring Jay Gillenhaal and Dar Salem, a small bomb disposal unit, bossed by Sgt Kinley (Gillenhaal) and his interpreter,…
Do Losers Have to Relocate? The Finality of Status
This will begin a series of inquiries into the natural law of popular revolutions and what happens to the losers? How does all that work out? I’ve written long and often here about the various “firsts” the American experience…