Boz.........................................

Boz Scaggs played the wondrous Midland Theatre on Friday night.  At 70, Boz still puts on a great show - not long, but great.  This song was part of the first encore.  Some of the best live music I've ever heard.  Sent chills up and down my spine.  Made the whole show.

Boz Scaggs.....................................................Loan Me A Dime

No no no no no no no no no no no..............

Nobody But Me........................................The Human Beinz

Fifty years ago..........................................

On the TV..................................................................Stingray




Backstory on Stingray is here

Back shortly................................................

Honey, please.........................................

The Rascals..............................................................Good Lovin'

This halfway house....................................

I can’t divine your future, but it’s pretty obvious to any naked eye that you have a lot going for you. To say the least, you were born, which is in itself half the battle, and you live in a democracy — this halfway house between nightmare and utopia — which throws fewer obstacles in the way of an individual than its alternatives.
-Joseph Brodsky, as excerpted from here

Faithful readers will remember that................

.............your faithful blogger has traditionally been more concerned with the prospect of deflation than the prospect of inflation.  Since most all his assets are in encumbered real estate, surely you won't blame him.
     The Economist has been noticing the dangers of deflation as well.  This weeks magazine features this article on the subject; it begins like this:

It is a pernicious threat, all the more so because, at its onset, it seems almost benign.  After two generations of fighting against inflation, why be worried if the victory looks just a bit too complete, if the ancient enemy is so cowed as to no longer strain against the chains in which it is bound?  But the stable low inflation fought for in the 1980's and 1990's and inflation hazardously close to zero are not so far apart.  And as inflation drops, slipping into deflation becomes ever easier.  It is in that dangerous position that the world now stands.

This knowledge is good..............................

“We should realize that, if [Socrates] demanded that the wisest men should rule, he clearly stressed that he did not mean the learned men;  in fact, he was skeptical of all professional learnedness, whether it was that of the philosophers or of the learned men of his own generation, the Sophists.  The wisdom he meant was of a different kind.  It was simply the realization:  how little do I know! Those who did not know this, he taught, knew nothing at all. This is the true scientific spirit.” 
-Karl Popper

Fifty years ago..........................................

The Beatles...............................................................Boys

The turn around.........................................

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
-Leo Buscaglia

So, what really happened........................?

 "Surely Chief Justice Strine, among all jurists, must appreciate the role accident, error, and chance play in almost every complex process such as a merger or acquisition and how, even when said twists and turns are faithfully and comprehensively memorialized the twin imps of imperfect memory and hostile interpretation can confuse and bedevil the faithful interpretation of the facts of the matter."
-The Epicurean Dealmaker, as excerpted from here

Amateurs..............................................

"...innumerable studies suggest that the average worker devotes between one-and-a-half and three hours a day to loafing."
-as excerpted from this Schumpeter column

Checking in with Dick Clark...............................

The Count Five.........................................Psychotic Reaction

It's that time of the year.............................

More on the benefits of Mr. Market........

"... it is important to remember that market forces do tend to act to keep economic power balanced and that market actors will look for creative ways around problems.  The combination of need and cleverness in either economics or engineering often ends up yielding solutions."
-as excerpted from this post on China's former monopoly on "rare earth minerals"

On climbing the ladder............................

Fifty years ago......................................

Jan & Dean...............................................Sidewalk Surfin'

On fine spun theoretic systems....................

"Mr. Jefferson is proof of this, he is a man of some requirements, extending even to elegant literature, but his opinions upon government are the result of fine spun theoretic systems, drawn from the ingenious writings of Locke, Sydney and others of their cast, which can never be realized, such opinions very probably are the favorite ones with those who now conduct the revolution in France;  I am far from thinking that the troubles in that great Kingdom are over, and I doubt whether it will be found practical to rule that high-spirited nation, with a single assembly, thwarted as it will be by a dissatisfied Clergy and Nobility."
-attributed to William Paterson,(1745-1806) who was among other things a signatory to the United States Constitution, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, and Governor of New Jersey

Earning the respect of a fellow adult man......

Sipp, as only he can, reminisces about what it takes to be an adult, all while honoring Jack Bruce and Cream.

A bridge too far.........................................

The Bacon Cheeseburger D'oh Nut.  Story here.

"People, if stuff like this can happen, why do we even have a government at all?"
-Mungowitz

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