It looks like i’m not the only guy to have figured out that the world works in cycles. Just look at the fashion industry—bell-bottoms have come and gone……….and come again. I’ve seen acid-wash jeans twice now. What’s next?–shoulder pads for womens’ jackets again?
Patrick Bedard is one of the old-hands at Car&Driver. This is one smart […]
The one thing we don’t have in the developed world, is corruption. Having spoken with people who have sold everything and moved to Canada, the one thing they comment on (for example, back in the Phillipines) is the rampant corruption that exists.
This is a mentality that is much like democracy, or the lack of it. […]
Approximately five years ago, i read an article of how one researcher was applying wave theory to traffic jams. The simple premise being that traffic jams could be define with a formula describing a wave. This is a micro-example of my premise being that long-term economic forces shape human behaviours and thoughts over a period […]
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Yesterday was the 45th anniversary of the assassination of JFK in Dallas. Networks aired the 1991 feature film “JFK” by Oliver Stone. I remember when it was released that it was draped in controversy, and accused of being a less-than-accurate rendition of what really happened. To this day, I don’t think anyone really knows what […]
Students of history will recall that after Japan attacked Pearl Harbour, the US industrial machine mobilized from its depression-induced coma, and pulled out all stops in the production of all sorts of military machinery and equipment. During the Remembrance Day holiday two weeks ago, I watched a TV special that stated the auto-production apparatus of […]