That was actually said in the early days of the crumbling Soviet Union. The speaker was a young man from the Caucasus who had staked out a street corner in Moscow where he planned to set up a kiosk to sell magazines and newspapers, notions and…
Category: Business and Economy
American Exceptionalism #17: The American How-To Book
I’ll get to #’s 1 thru 16 later. We’ve talked about them before. Note the book cover, which I only ran across a week or so ago. It was printed in 1908, in New York, Chicago, and London, but was…
First Principles about America; First Questions
Is America an accident? A freak of Nature? Or, is America the product of Intelligent Design? I don’t intend to try to answer the second half of that question here as that requires an inquiry into philosophy and theology. But by the…
For Self-Righteous Conservative Prigs on Twitter
For those of you self-righteous prigs who sound remarkably similar to left-wingers trying to execute one of our guys, and delight in watching Joe Biden squirm, may I suggest one simple thing: Keep it to yourselves until the Dems choose…
“I am Not Responsible! I am Not Responsible!”
You may not recognize this phrase much anymore, but in the 1960s it was a common plea, heard up and down the line at any railroad station in Delhi, Bombay, Cape Town, Singapore, and thousands of smaller stations where clerks…