Sunday Flotsam and Jetsam
Miscellaneous thoughts and observations.
Rumors are swirling that VP Kamala Harris and the Cabinet may try to invoke the 25th Amendment to replace clearly diminished Joe Biden. Problem with that is not only would it require 8 Cabinet ministers to agree to do it - this move may also open the can of worms about when the dementia first impaired him and if any of his acts since that time are legally binding (such as Hunter's pardon)... Donald Trump is a billionaire. If anything bothers him it is probably the charge that he's being controlled by another billionaire (Elon Musk). The old Donald would have been upset at the idea he isn't wealthy enough but the new Donald will probably just troll the people making the charge... Government shutdowns are like free parking for the holidays... Welcome to the college football playoffs where after the first weekend the argument has suddenly shifted from expanding the tourney field to contracting it... RIP Rickey Henderson. The greatest leadoff man and base stealer in MLB history. This came as a shock... The proposed new Director of the FBI Kash Patel has said requiring a court reporter to record what was said in FISA courts may be the single most important reform adopted by a new administration. I can't see why not - we have seen what happens when these are held in secret with no written record. No need to make it public but there should be a written record of what was alleged and said behind closed doors... Warren Buffett, one of the richest men in the world, spends about half his waking hours reading. It can be argued he's not able to spend his time reading because he's rich but that spending so much time reading made him rich... What's worse - being photographed with Bashir al-Assad or now being photographed wit Alex Soros?... Learn something new every day: Max Planck, one of the smartest men to ever live tried economics first but found it too messy and uncertain. He then turned to physics... In perhaps the least surprising news of the week the Biden Administration reportedly has withdrawn plans to cancelled student loans. Lumps of coal for all those who believed him… Speaking of economics - how good a writer was Adam Smith? Immanuel Kant, perhaps the greatest intellectual in Germany at the time announced his country had nobody his equal...
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