2.28.2015

Brother can

-Sir, can you spare a dime?
-Thanks for the opportunity, but I pass.
I gave this impromptu answer. But seriously the principle pushed by the Republican machine is  - don't tax the ultra high earners. They are job creators!
But seems to me the job creators are pocketing the money and skipping the job creation. Or at best they creae the jobs in Bangladesh where they come cheap.

2.26.2015

Being Kramer

The other day was thinking to write a post on a Seinfeld theme - Sometimes I should stop being George and should be Kramer. Liberating. The following day  this article ran in the paper. OK, may be I should avoid being Kramer.

2.15.2015

I am THE FAN

In this period when everybody IS..declares to be  some victim or another - I recognized myself in the portrait struck by James Dolan.   ...your life is a mess and you are a hateful mess.. 
Almost. Getting there. To speed up the process I should become a Knicks fan.

2.08.2015

Ich bin ein Munchener

Ich bin ein Munchener said the EU as they are meeting in Munich. Right now. In Munich.  To study how to pacify a crazy guy. You, my Czech bots who visit regularly this blog, take notice. Right now the subject is Ukraine, but you are not far away. Old men who were in Europe in 1939 might still remember the  feeling of relief when Chamberlain came back with a signed document.

2.05.2015

using painkillers

I discoverer painkillers. I had taken pills that reduce inflammations or temperature,. But to kill minor pains. Not really. Thought beneath me. But then what a relief! And I remembered Seneca, who was teaching stoicism while was living a wealthy man's  life. What was the point of him teaching stoicism? Just to pretend to belong to a philosophy en vogue during his life? Teaching without practicing? Like  today's politicians? At that time I thought philosophers were living by their words. Right?    When he was told to commit suicide he was totally unprepared - had to try different methods....A stoic unprepared for death.