Author Archives: jackpelham

And I wonder about the birdsWhether they are singing to be heard by usIn the first place.

The birds could quit singingAnd there are manyWho would not notice.

Perhaps we should recognize the foolishnessOf expecting someone to behave betterThan he has yet been taught.

There are places yet in this countryWhere the black man had better notShow his face after sundown,Just as there are placesWhere the white man hadBetter not show his face, either. And this is the way they want it.

As necessary as it is,The marketplace wearies me so.

Who loves excellence the mostIs not the consumerWho spends only money,But the artisan who spends himselfTo make things just so.

Few are truly free to wonder about a thing—To explore and test the truth of a matterFor the wonder of truth itself.

She noticed a bunch of stuff other people don’t noticeAnd then wrote a bunch of stuff about it that other people don’t read. And that pretty much sums it up.

People used to think that humans could generally be counted on to act rationally in their own best interests. This idea is generally called something like the Standard Economic Model, but the cognitive science of the past few decades has … Continue reading →

Funny, how the government Can break all the rules, And then claim that the citizens Would be the rebellious ones If they were to demand That the government cut it out.