Serious investment thinking that doesn’t take itself too seriously.
As we watch a white Christian patriarchy exert its influence in Washington, I think back to H.L. Mencken whom I admired back in eighth grade for his sharp tongue. I come from soft-spoken people who shunned mockery, and I abandoned Mencken in my twenties when I became a romantic liberal but Project...
I’ve just finished a ten day solo tour down South as the World’s Oldest Stand-Up and it was a major adventure for an old guy with memory issues who keeps forgetting the word...
‘Une invitation au voyage’ Last Monday I took the TGV from Paris to Cannes to attend the annual MIPIM property conference. This grand and familiar train journey was preceded by a...
I’ve gotten a rave report from Bayfield, Wisconsin, that relatives of a friend slaughtered a hog and put on a pork feast for neighbours and that fresh pork compared to...
I seldom invite friends to come to church with me and, after Sunday’s morning service that was so deeply moving, I don’t know why. If you knew a great bakery, you’d tell people....
I got to spend last week in California, seeing people, doing things, from Irvine up to Sacramento, and people kept trying to get me to go with them to vineyards, though I no...
I sympathized with our President’s proposing that we run all the Palestinians out of Gaza and take ownership and turn it into a luxury resort. I’ve had crazy ideas myself but...
Most aphorisms are self-evident, such as “A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush” and the one about glass houses and throwing stones and the mice playing when the cat is...
Former players criticising current ones is a dangerous game. Alex Hartley’s cold-shouldering by some of the pettier England players for basically telling the truth reminds me of...
When Chip Carter spoke about his father, Jimmy, at a memorial service in Atlanta and told how, when his dad noticed the boy got a poor mark in Latin, Jimmy studied Latin so that...