I consider it no mere coincidence that, on the weekend immediately following my sixty-sixth birthday, my computer crashed. Call it a sign of the times (my personal times). I had been somewhat apathetic about birthdays of late until this one, especially in the seven years since I was diagnosed with cancer. Being told […]
Archives for September 2012
Forget How It Looks on Paper; You Gotta Win ‘em on the Field
Sports and political campaigns have a lot in common. Underdogs sometimes win; favorites sometimes lose. Not always, to be sure, and maybe not even most of the time. But often enough to make what is happening in this year’s presidential campaign not all that surprising. The sports analogy is most clearly evident with […]
Could Both Theories be Irrelevant? Considering a Not-so-Bizarre Third Alternative
Last week I presented an admittedly simplified explanation of the two economic theories that are represented by the candidacies of Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. I characterized them as “bottom-up” for Obama and “top-down” for Romney. To briefly restate the difference between the two, the bottom-up view holds that a vibrant economy grows […]
Want to Know the Time? Check out “The Clock”
Have you heard about “The Clock”? It’s a movie, of sorts, that is 24 hours long, but no one ever watches the whole run of it. The “film” is the creation of Christian Marclay, whose idea it was to piece together clips of movies that all, in one way or another, reflect the […]