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Meandering Along, Going Nowhere

Who knew that interesting times could be so dull? All the dangerous excitement of our great crisis and the exhilaration of erstwhile recovery has given way to an enervating nothingness. We are meandering along going nowhere. Deliberately. And that is both infuriating and frustrating. Because it need not be this way. The incompetence that flourishes […]

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Fragments on Fragments

So. The summer is formally and finally over. I am back in New York for an extended time. At least until I can escape again. Looking back over the past few months during which I have spent much time away from the city in much more bucolic surroundings I am struck by the fragmentation of […]

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Occupy Wall Street

Will it work? Who knows? When the normal method of influencing policy is disrupted by its co-option by an interested minority, and when political leadership limits itself to serving the interests, primarily, of that minority, a new direction or channel must be found. It will, of necessity, be outside the norm. It will thus be […]

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