AIMING FOR GOLD FINGERS FROM ALL THOSE NUMBERS (… and without benefit of any leprechauns besides) Recently an almost half billion dollar lottery jackpot was won by two players, along with a third runner-up who gleaned a cool couple of
EXTREME MANIPULATIONS OF SELF-DETERMINATION (…cause fission impacts on existing hegemonic order) The ongoing international crisis over the situation in the Ukraine, and the recent developments in its Crimean appendage, shows how volatile things can get whenever extreme manipulations of self-determination…cause
THE MYSTERY OF FLIGHT 370 (…is a disappearance worthy of the Bermuda Triangle) Disastrous events in commercial aviation are not unknown, and when they do happen everyone reacts emotionally to them. The case of Malaysian Airlines Flight 370, however, is
SCANNING FORWARD (…for possible unintended consequences from imposing sanctions on Russia) Normally I try not to “chase’ the news with the rest of the thundering herd of commentators, analysts, and pundits of one kind or another, preferring instead to maintain
Capital Rewards (…which will most likely end up in the pockets of the same kind of oligarchic crooks…) The old satirical aphorism of…if government ran it…crime wouldn’t pay…is all wrong. With most of the former Soviet republics now transformed into
IN THIS DISTEMPERED WORLD OF OURS… (…we can’t help but wonder if we should seek asylum…on Mars) The seemingly endless tornadoes of extreme events all over this planet of ours, reminds us of an old Kingston Trio recording about…mushroom-shaped clouds…and