I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
–Albert Einstein

Here’s a cool resource for economic freelancers (or for anyone who is interested in real world charts and graphs): America’s past economic performance, as demonstrated by trends in Google searches, adjusted for search volume.
The first page shows a couple of fascinating charts: the first is the “Google Retail Index and Clothing Store Sales” [...]

Liberty doesn’t work as well in practice as it does in speeches.
–Will Rogers

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggie” until you can find a rock.
—Will Rogers

Under Democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule – and both commonly succeed, and are right.
—H.L. Mencken

“What is it about certain cities and places that fosters specific attitudes? Am I imagining that this is the case? To what extent does the infrastructure of cities shape the lives, work, and sensibilities of their inhabitants? Quite significantly, I suspect.”
Interesting thoughts on something we’ve all observed (but perhaps not fully registered) from Talking Heads’ [...]