A Few Random, Perhaps Interesting Ideas
I was flattered to be asked to participate in another Zoom call (this our eighth) with about 12 members of my high school class of 1973. A few take-aways I thought I’d share.
For the first time since the end of World War II, the U.S. national debt exceeds its GDP (~$22 trillion vs. ~$20 trillion). Those who would have otherwise expected progress on social issues under the incoming administration should realize that the U.S. is in a very unenviable financial position at this point. Of course, we spend more than three-quarters of a trillion dollars on our military each year, and progressives have been calling for cutbacks there for generations, though without any success whatsoever. A life-long physics professor added, “Do we remember when we were promised the ‘peace dividend?'” (more…)
The most internationally humiliating aspect of the “stolen election” protests is the complete lack of evidence, and all this is becoming clearer and more disgusting by the day. I hope readers will check out the discussion below about 
Gary Tulie writes something I thought I’d share, with a few brief words of my own at the bottom:
The call for national unity is actually a call to excuse a series of crimes of the grandest level imaginable. Trump and his supporters are working hard to take over the U.S. federal government, using the exact same playbook implemented by every other fascist in the history of human kind.
From 
Gary Tulie writes from his home in Buckinghamshire, England:
Because my wife has been involved in the thoroughbred horse breeding industry for the past 30 years, I have to admit that I’ve been out to the track more than a few times. I recall, essentially out of boredom, betting on a race filled with slow, cheap horses, all with terrible past race performances and pitiful workout times, and thinking to myself: well, one of them is actually going to win this race, though it’s almost impossible to imagine. 
A great number of prominent ex-Republicans have assembled something called the Lincoln Project, an ad hoc group whose purpose is to remove Donald Trump from office before he can inflict any further damage. Their core tool to bring this about is the creation and distribution of short but extremely powerful videos that provide evidence of how completely criminally insane this whole situation has become.
One of the core tenets of business management is “You can’t manage what you can’t measure.” That’s why 
In Western philosophy we have something called “truth theory,” of which there are essentially three:
