Chocolate and Gold Coins

After my last post , I was curious: was there any trace of my father's illustrious career in all of the world wide web? I took some seri...

It happens to nearly everyone at some point in their lives: the death of the greatest person that you will ever know. Of course, most of you...

The Democrats have come to power and straight away they are going to make a priority of raising the national minimum wage (which has not be ...

In my previous post , I mentioned as an afterthought an idea for giving partial protection for creating entirely new types of products that ...

A year ago, I wrote this nice piece about my son’s Halloween pumpkin and the nice pumpkin carving kit ( Pumpkin Masters ) he used to carve i...

From the always excellent India Uncut is this link to a BBC TV show about the worst jobs in history . Here is an example : As a fuller, you...

I haven't been blogging regularly for some time and have considered stopping blogging altogether. I will delay that decision for a littl...

There is an interesting post on Half Sigma about why we should keep estate tax : The general rule is that whenever money is transferred from...

Here is a picture of a Gaur: It is a very large relative of the domestic cow - it is not so closely related to buffalos and such.

Last August I wrote : OPEC, the oil cartel, has temporarily lost control of world oil production. I say temporarily because I have no doubt ...