May 28, 2024

Macron's criticism of Israel is hypocritical

Liberté, égalité, fraternité is the motto of France, and in 1958, it was written into the French constitution. Yet its early use was nothing to be proud of: It began among the rallying cries of the French Revolution’...

November 12, 2023

Hacker, or hackee?

A large Chinese, as in what both political parties used to call Red China, bank claims to have been hacked and among the results was a disruption to the market for U.S. Treasury securities. According to CNN: Hong KongCNN —  ...

August 12, 2023

How much is all this shoplifting costing us?

Are we paying for what others steal? I think so. Costs from shoplifting "shrinkage" at big retailers, and small ones, are passed on to consumers until consumers cannot pay them anymore, and then stores close from bankruptcy.  ...

April 5, 2022

How many saw it coming?

Marin Marais died 60 years before the French Revolution.  He composed "Voix des Humaines," an instrumental trio with a haunting beginning that, with hindsight, seems to presage the bloody termination of the French evolution o...