“It seemed like a good idea at the time.” That’s a popular postmortem for a plan that has gone horribly wrong. In fact, well-intentioned ideas are behind almost every financial shipwreck, abandoned project, and foreign policy failure that happens in this world. And yet the quest for better ideas and fool-proof philosophies continues unabated—even making … Continued
Crazy weather these days here in Southern California. Seems like the weathermen never get it
Oh rats! Flushed out by the July floods, evidently--they are everywhere! Scampering in the garden in full daylight, eating the ducks' food, getting into the rabbits' hutch, scampering above our heads at night. Liberal applications of Rodean ( a mischievous pun on England's poshest girls' school) is taking its effect. Oh rats! And one reason […]
