Addendum ...

THE African nation of Uganda is close to becoming the most criminally venal and ignorant country in the world. Although they should, I don't expect Ugandan legislators to read Matt Ridley's books, especially "The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature."

New Year's Day 2010

WOW! It was wonderful to read such common sense from the NYT's in-house conservative, David Brooks, on the first day of 2010. A quotation:

During the middle third of the 20th century,... there was a realistic sense that human institutions are necessarily flawed. History is not knowable or controllable. People should be grateful for whatever assistance that government can provide and had better do what they can to be responsible for their own fates.

That mature attitude seems to have largely vanished. Now we seem to expect perfection from government and then throw temper tantrums when it is not achieved. We seem to be in the position of young adolescents — who believe mommy and daddy can take care of everything, and then grow angry and cynical when it becomes clear they can’t.

Yep, Mr. Brooks, the tea-baggers, most Republicans and those so-called "centrist" Democrats ought to grow up and become adults — and the Obama folks ought to get some spine and tell them to, as the old ag teacher in Unit 4 used to say, shape up or ship out. But, as Mr. Brooks writes, "this is apparently a country that must be spoken to in childish ways."

New Year's Eve 2009

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Wednesday, December 30, 2009

HERE'S something from the "Parisian Dutchman": Lots of Christmas kisses!

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

NOW what was it someone was saying the other day, something like, well, that Obama is a fraud?

Monday, December 28, 2009

YOU'RE right on, Paul Krugman, it was the decade of the Big Zero, as you say — a decade of seemingly perpetual ignorance.