If you feed enough oats to the horse, some will pass through to feed the sparrows (referring to "trickle down" economics).

I've become accustomed to supporting politicians who are more conservative than I am. This is not entirely a surprise.

But now, as throughout history, financial capacity and political perspicacity are inversely correlated.

I am worried about our tendency to over invest in things and under invest in people.

When people put their ballots in the boxes, they are, by that act, inoculated against the feeling that the government is not theirs. They then accept, in some measure, that its errors are their errors, its aberrations their aberrations, that any revolt will be against them. It's a remarkably shrewd and rather conservative arrangement when one thinks of it.

We're all subject to the daily pressures of consumer persuasion.

Faced with having to change our views or prove that there is no need to do so, most of us immediately get busy on the proof.