The Happiness I Pursue

Much noise has been made in the conservative blogosphere about the difference between equality of opportunity and equality of outcome, and the difference between the pursuit of happiness and the providing of happiness. The key point, one that should be obvious, is...

Everything Affects Everything

As a brutal February rolls into a hopefully less brutal March, some of us start contemplating the spring planting season, with its promise of home-grown, straight-from-the-vine tomatoes. If you’ve never had a tomato straight off the vine, you’ve missed out...

Eat, Drink and Be Merry

Daffy Duck, occasional philosopher and sporadic commenter on the human condition, helped himself to a vast hoard of treasure that he and Bugs Bunny came across while ]tunneling their way to Pismo Beach](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050111/). Along the way, he...

We Wish You (Some) Success

Everyone loves small businesses. People extol their virtues, politicians and the chattering classes always say wonderful things about them and point at them as the source of innovation and jobs creation, and we often hear about how mom-and-pop operations should be...

If AGW is Real, What Do We Do

The extreme cold snaps of January sparked much gnashing of teeth among the chattering classes regarding anthropgenic global warming (AGW) aka climate change aka humans are a scourge on the earth, with some skeptics asking how “warming” is consistent with...