In the twentieth year of his reign 325 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine, whose conversion to Christianity ended Roman persecution of what evolved from a small Hebrew sect into a faith and creed patronized by devotees of nearly every ethnicity, race and culture from with… Read full post »

I told another OS denizen who commented on the economy in a previous post, that I was going to address it in a new post. Before I weigh in on that however, I want to get a few other things out of the way.

To begin with I think I may have… Read full post »

I want to relegate that last dreck to a less conspicuous place in the queue. Ergo I thought I would go ahead and participate in Heidibeth's Open Call.

1. I have some degree of ambidexterity. I write with my right hand, throw with my left hand, play tennis with both.… Read full post »

We are in the process of creating what deserves to be called the idiot culture. Not an idiot sub-culture, which every society has bubbling beneath the surface and which can provide harmless fun; but the culture itself. For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming… Read full post »

Is the similarity of a bit I first published on here four days ago, "Goldman Sachs changes policy," and a few lines talk show host Jay Leno used in his Monday night 'Tonight Show' monologue, merely the product of an extra-sensory like convergence of two cognitive impulses wielded by some strange… Read full post »

In the wake of an indelicate email which incited a fury of admonitions on Capitol Hill, investment bank Goldman Sachs has instituted a new company-wide policy forbidding the use of obscene words in any internal communications.

I guess those of us who take the optimistic view… Read full post »