Chairman Mao’s funeral was September 9th, 1976. THAT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO. At this point, in my admittedly scarce knowledge of Chinese history, other than discovering fireworks, I honestly believe that beginning 50 years ago, China had discovered nothing, patented nothing, and for all practical purposes, mass manufactured nothing, and imported and exported not much […]
Every one of us uses measuring devices every day. Chefs and Mom, use measuring devices to cook, be it a ‘pinch of salt,’ or a tablespoon of something, or a teaspoon of something else. They bake their biscuits at 350 degrees for ten minutes, and a cup of flour, some yeast and a quarter pound […]
Whatever we are raised with, sticks with us, usually for our entire lives. There are hundreds of examples, 99% of which cannot be disproved. Examples? I was raised as a Jehovah’s Witness until age 27, when I read a book a lovely lady gave me. (“The Age of Reason,” By Tom Paine, written 200 years […]
So goes a story in the Journal a few days ago. Today our national debt is $39 trillion, and government spending exceeds that. A hundred years ago, in 1926, the national debt was $732,000, and the government income was $21 billion. Last year (2025) government income was $4.9 trillion, and it spent $6.3 trillion. Basic […]
41 years ago, after I had discovered the beauty of being able to write something and preserve it on a disc, I decided I should write a book, since I have always had an opinion about virtually everything, I figured lots of people would either share my opinions or hate them. I had written maybe […]
The two pictures attached, are for two homes I have owned, one in Philadelphia, and the second is in Montrose Colorado. The first, recently sold for close to a million dollars. I paid $21,000 for it in 1971. Same house, huge, with a 35 foot library, lots of bedrooms, a wine cellar, two furnaces, etc. […]
Allow me to repeat it. “The more of anything there is, the less they will be worth, and the less of anything there is, the more they will be worth.” This applies to everything, be it carrots, wallpaper, lumber, auto parts, bricks, water in the desert, or water anywhere. Snow, sunshine, trees, and you name […]
Allow me to repeat it. “The more of anything there is, the less they will be worth, and the less of anything there is, the more they will be worth.” This applies to everything, be it carrots, wallpaper, lumber, auto parts, bricks, water in the desert, or water anywhere. Snow, sunshine, trees, and you name […]
That was the title of a piece in Friday’s Journal. I didn’t read it, because I know it told about stocks and bonds to buy, all denominated in dollars, of course. I saw a commercial on Fox News before I wrote this, and the commercial said, “No monthly payments.” I have no monthly payments to […]
Probably the best definition of the word “Faith,” can be found in the Bible at Hebrews 11:1 in a modern English translation: “Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realties though not beheld.” More succinctly, faith is a strong belief in something, even though it could or couldn’t happen. […]