On the September 15th episode of Looking Backwards Looking Forwards, I wrote about the Russian position regarding the US technology being used in long range missiles and fired from Ukraine. I opened it with this, “I should have led with this and only wrote about this considering how it has advanced over the last 3-4 …
Bygone Relics
I am sitting here just waiting and watching Tampa Bay ready to be destroyed just like it was before and before and before. It’s gonna look just like western North Carolina in 48 hours with the exception being a sandy backdrop versus forests. It will be destroyed. This needs to be said lest we pull …
Hurricane Helene caused over $100 billion in estimated destruction when it smacked the southeast United States last week. Now, I don’t write cliches like I am sending my thoughts and prayers to the flood victims. This is a disaster and that is why it is called as much. If you know what is happening there, …
One of the benefits of hindsight is getting to listen to, read, and learn from those that have lived before and might, might just have some insight that could help our own lives, if we listen. If our nose is in Legend of Zelda or Zappos or TMZ reading about the problems that a character …
We left off last week looking at the similarities between the spot we find ourselves now and the Great Depression. This doesn’t mean we will have another depression, a great depression, but we are going to have our day in the rain. We must examine the rainmakers of today Don and Kamala. We can juxtapose …
As I mentioned I am interested in the word sequencing. It is the order in which things progress through cycle in particular that have me fascinated. How does the money flow from good to bad and where does it go? I like to say that if the world was a poker game and everyone started …
“The only thing you should remember is that everyone else is either reckless or inept. Usually both.” Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady I have become a bit obsessed lately with the word sequencing. In business cycles sequencing is the timeline of events and how things morph from one phase to the next. We are …
As I sit here browsing the internet I am concerned. I am concerned because I try to be an informative and responsible information aggregator and opinionist, and yet I know that it is likely to be a fact that I get goldfished or catfished or whatever fish they are calling getting hoodwinked these days. It …
Today I want to talk about one of the greatest films of all time, Chinatown. It stars Jack Nicholson as J. J. Gettes, a a private investigator, and Faye Dunaway, an eccentric beauty, and John Houston is the incomparably evil Noah Cross, Chinatown was incredible and yes you should watch it and listen to it, …
Here are some data from Ryan Spaeder on Twitter. Ted Williams seasons from 1941 to 1947. 1941- batted .406 1942-Triple Crown 1943- WWII 1944- WWII 1945-WWII 1946- MVP 1947- Triple Crown Now the best thing about this is that Ted won only one MVP in this time period. In 1941, he was hated by the …