World Cup News focused on the Iranian team coming to North America while the host country is in an active war with their country. It's UNPRECEDENTED! Yet nobody remembers or wants to recognize that for many past World Cups what was the common Iranian call? but DEATH TO AMERICA!
Misesian 10/2025 Economics in the MAGA World: WHY ECONOMICS MATTERS by Tom Woods. Great explanation of what GDP measures and what it doesn't. Which E word is most important in Economics? Efficiency or Ethics? Rothbard says ethics should inform our efficiency at all levels.
the idea everyone has the same life experience as you. Another assumption making an ass out of you and me (ASSUME) is that everyone is as innovative as you are. My wife is flexible and innovative when faced with issues or difficulties. But empathy is what she is best at, I think.
Botany day 11: Listened to the LET'S BOTANIZE guys. Signed up for their newsletter. Got their book at the library. Ologies re-listened to FORAGING ECOLOGIES episode. IDed the Virginia Creeper in our yard. Then copied a bunch of great quotes from LAB GIRL into my botany journal.
VOX Headlines: 9 reasons to watch the 2026 World Cup: ticket prices, political tensions, and more. World Cup's Trump Problem. Thereβs a new threat to the World Cup. Is FIFA ready? The couples using ChatGPT as their therapist! US just got its 1st new sunscreen in almost 30 years!
Without a good perspective on issues in life, my wife, striving for eloquence, can easily fall into the false assumption paradox. There are some great resources all over the web about identifying assumptions common in business and education and life. One simple assumption is
Finally the eloquence books have come at the library. What looked promising might not be. This is the consequence of just following AI's recommendations. One book is on Stoicism and Marcus Aurelius. Not sure if my wife will start speaking in the nuances of an ancient ruler?
Botany day 10: Learned all about plant blindness, human bias for things that don't have faces, it's actually a bigger issue that I realized. Identified Red Sand-Spurrey outside my school with tinny little purple flowers. What is their purpose? Can I revive my classroom plant?
"Total tailspin." - Will Fleming. Red Sox bottom of the ninth, tying run at home. IKF challenged strike three. Then he stole second, and Caleb Durbin hit a home run, 7-5. But we struck out, game over, we lost. We got swept by Tampa Bay. Next game at Fenway, with a worse record.
thrifty and tries to save more money during an economic downturn, total consumer spending would drop, which would hurt the economy and would lower everyone's overall income. Thankfully not everyone acts that way since many are Keynesianists, meaning just spend and don't save.
Forbes Headlines: The Worldβs 1st Cannabis-Based Painkiller. America Doesnβt Work Without Immigrants. North Korean Hackers or Fake IT Workers, Behind most Tech Firm Attacks. Larry Ellisonβs Net Worth Plunges $10 Billion, now 5th-Richest! How Much is Graham Platner really Worth?
Bottom of the 8th. Red Sox 3 Tampa Bay 4. Really in the top of the 8th with a productive out and the tying run on 3rd but we just couldn't put it all together. My father in law is asking about school ending for the year so I heard there was a great double play by the Red Sox!
Misesian 10/2025 Economics in the MAGA World: WHY ECONOMICS MATTERS by Tom Woods. Governments feels as long as they're doing something that's good. Better than nothing. At times when they do something it's NOT better than nothing, doing nothing would have been better than that."
Botany Day 9: Finished the first chapter of Principles of Botany. One book in the SUGGESTED READINGS has opened up the world of Economic Botany or Ethnobotany! Confirmed there IS a large poison ivy outside my school. Experiment? AI helped find many Chinese plant documentaries!
Maine's Platner, Nazi tattoo and credible female abuse allegations, is amazing. GROUND NEWS: Not much going on about the race. Just a few outlets on the left covering his poor choices in tattoos and bashing of women. Future allegations by Democrats will be laughably hollow.
Now we get to an interesting discussion of a paradox. Now all her eloquence can come out, nuanced language and compelling questions prevail. If we turn to the world of economics and my wife's nature, one can read on the paradox of thrift. It is the concept where if everyone was
At my school's graduation. Checking bleacher report app. Tie game 1-1 Red Sox vs Tampa Bay. Yandy Diaz hit a homer in the first inning and Marcelo Mayer sent one to center field in the top of the 3rd. Connely Early is already at 50+ pitches in the 3rd inning. NBA Finals game 3.
Botany Day 8: I started listening to "in defense of plants" a new podcast for me and started listening from episode one way back in 2015. Long lunch block, I took a walk around the school. Google kept telling me I found a giant poison ivy vine climbing a pine tree outside school!
Imprimis: Feb 2026 "Recovering the Lost Art of Diplomacy" A. Wess Mitchell. Part 5. "The Trump admin has undertaken more big diplomatic initiatives than probably all previous cold war admins combined. He's succeeded in resolving many seemingly intractable regional conflicts."
Moving into week 2 hoping to make my wife more eloquent or at least more confident in her English. We will work on PERSPECTIVE today and I'll attempt to help her with using those words with a simple topic so she can use all the words from last week to create nuanced responses.