“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.” Milton Friedman. Let’s run down some of the...
Author - Craig Reger
What does a potato, a chapel, and the name Conrad all have in common? They all start with the letter K. The German word for potato is Kartoffel and Chapel is...
“As long as nickels and dimes have to compete with each other for whatever value they may carry in the marketplace–and here I’m thinking of...
“I am keenly aware of the declining fortunes and resentment of ordinary townspeople” —James Otis Jr. I was having a beer summit with two...
“New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.” —John Locke. Many years...
“Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters.” -Jake Barnes, The Sun Also Rises. When my father passed away unexpectedly in February of...
“A penalty is a cowardly way to score.” -Pele, considered the greatest footballer to ever play the game. The World Cup has just passed the Group...
‘Nothing is older than our habit of calling everything new”. Mark Twain. As our country streaks towards economic catastrophe, I hear many...
“No taxation without representation”. Quote attributed to the 1773 Boston Tea Party because the colonists did not have representation in the...
By Craig Reger “That isn’t a torpedo is it”? — Unidentified passenger of the Lusitania, 1915. For some reason the Lusitania passengers...
By Craig Reger “Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had...
By Craig Reger “Of course I was given a room with a window that doesn’t open up”. Olivia May Reger, Mays Window. Olivia is my...
By Craig Reger “Be careful you don’t know where you’re going, you might not get there”. Yogi Berra won ten world series with the New...
By Craig Reger “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it,”. Unidentified U.S. major after an Allied bombing raid in the city of Ben Tre in...
By Craig Reger “Because it was him, and because it was me”. French Philosopher Montaigne was casually anecdotal in his Renaissance era essays. I...
By Craig Reger “This is the golden age and gold is the reason for the wars we wage”, Bono Vox. Lead singer, U2. Speaking of the hypothesis that...
By Craig Reger “Even if we are ruined by it, it was still beautiful”. Many Nationalistic Germans had this to say about WWI. Fast forward one...