FIRST PRINCIPLES--REDUX

I started reading Smart Baseball   by Keith Law, about the nature of player evaluation in baseball. Keith works with teams to evaluate...

I’m still running.  The winter can be tough week to week from a weather standpoint. It rains a lot in the spring too which is rapi...

I’ve been reading all about ISIS. Mostly I’ve been covering the news on the fighting in Syria because it looks like it’s coming to a...

  Paul Harvey used to tell us about the “Rest of the Story”, interesting vignettes about famous people that few of us had ever heard. The...

Occasionally PBS will have a show that catches my eye. The other day landed on one about these veterinarians in Africa (Botswana maybe...

We all get to be a stick in the mud some of the time, a curmudgeon for the right season.   For a lot of us complaining about niche c...

The State of the Union (SOTU) was Tuesday.  Trump is great in these big moment settings and even manages to be charming and states...