Flying on a plane has somehow taken a step-down from its pre-pandemic ‘elegance’ to its current state as a post-apocalyptic dystopian thriller.  Passengers are fighting with airplane crews and each other, and it is all caught on video.  Explanations of this phenomenon have focused on contention around mask mandates and the stresses and isolation of…

This is the first Trilogy on the Middle East.  As logic would dictate, I decided to start where all stories should begin… in the middle, with episodes 4-6. Currently, negotiations on lifting nuclear sanctions are ongoing.  And, on June 18, 2021, Iran will have its presidential election.  While these events would normally be considered a…

In January of 2021, the San Francisco Unified School District Board voted to remove several names from schools in the city, including Abraham Lincoln’s.  Assuming the worst, I grabbed my musket and prepared to join the fight to uphold the Union from the new Confederate threat in the alt-right bastion of San Francisco.  After firing…

A guiding principal of ‘Quorum Theory’ is the increasing and unnecessary acrimony between our political parties.  It’s important to note that just because a member of a party says something does not necessarily make that idea conservative or liberal, Republican or Democrat.  In order to test this part of the theory, let me take you…

On Jan 6, 2021, the 10Yr US Treasury Rate increased above 1% for the first time in a bit less than a year. It got me thinking about the impact on society of low interest rates. Income inequality is increasing in the US (Figure 1)1.  The response from the Left has been to tax the…

After watching a group of ‘Vikings’ storm the capital, I thought to myself, how did we get here? Is the world filled with more crazy people than it used to be? I realized that while the answer to that is ‘Yes’, it doesn’t necessarily mean that the proportion of crazy people living among us has…