Damek.

Everybody wants universal health care.
So why don’t we have it?
Oh yeah…

This is pretty neat. This guy Dale Chihuly creates interesting glass pieces and they get shown in gardens at botanical gardens.
Saying it simply like that, I realize it’s nothing really special. Art has often had a place in gardens; who hasn’t heard of a sculpture garden? But it’s kind of unique to [...]

In-between the big, long conference center and my hotel was a Mariott hotel, so I walked by it each day to and from my room…

Much like people finally noticing that “free markets” don’t really exist, it looks like some thinkers are starting to address the age old question of whether humanity ever actually left its original “state of nature.” Heady stuff. The basic insight is that the system we have now is the same system we’ve always [...]

It’s over and I’m back home in New York City. But, ah, those conference memories…