Ghulf Genes

What with bright sunshine, on a very cold Nordic sort of morning, illuminating our still standing or hanging Christmas decorations, my mind...

Earth Day, which is today, should by definition have 24 earth hours. But as it happens, Earth Hour has already been celebrated in 2017 on M...

The word genre is most commonly associated with literature—as in literary genre. Its root is, ultimately, the Latin genus. That word means ...

A rather thoughtful, complete, and sober assessment of the health care issue in the United States is presented on Patio Boat ( link ). If ...

That word is in quotes above because that word is taking on new meanings we hadn’t guessed before. Thus, for instance, we now have self-dri...

The New York Times ran a story this morning headlined (in the Times Digest ) Secretary of State Leads from Shadows . The essence the artic...

Donald Trump signed a Congressional resolution, passed February 2, a Thursday, on February 16, another Thursday. This resolution overturns ...

Let’s take a fairly simple idea. The one that follows is often heard repeated as the justification for cutting taxes. The idea: cutting tax...

The new product that I propose somebody should bring to market would be made of very thick concrete. It would be shaped like a telephone bo...

For what will be obvious reasons today, the word “sanction” caught our attention. To be sure, this piece may be read three or four years fr...

When you ponder it a little more than superficially, the phrase political correctness is a tautology. Thus the word “political,” by itself...

The good Lord has decided to do the unusual. He waved a finger ever so slightly so that something we haven’t experienced in what seems like...

My use of the word “revisited” above is a nod to an earlier entry on my (these days) much-neglected economics blog called LaMarotte. There ...

Thin water (call it that) but it is everywhere, Insistently covering, coating everything— Pebbles, grass, swaths of concrete, tracks of...

Say you’re at the middle of a bridge—say it is the Seine River in Paris. You’re looking upriver, meaning that the water is approaching yo...

In the wake of the Great Recession, I had been charting employment growth/decline monthly on LaMarotte . I’d started in March 2011. For yea...

…well, the truth is, at root (thus from the view of etymology), strongly anchored in such concepts as faith, adherence, and loyalty. It cam...

What with Trump embracing Netanyahu, I noticed an odd fact about Rex Tillerson, Trump’s choice as the new Secretary of State. Tillerson has...

Our own Wolverine Drive follows the shoreline of Wolverine Lake, lake-side properties on one, inland-properties on its other side. Wolverin...

If our family has a patron saint, it must be St. Martin of Tours, in France. Who, by the way, selects one’s patron saint? Must happen at a ...