How many guys out there have a wife with a HS letterman’s jacket . . . that still fits!

The Priory U12 tennis team won a match.  The first time in two years, apparently. Beating Scott Valley Swim and Tennis soundly. Young Rory won one singles and two doubles matches. Woo Hoo!  Results here

Top Three Ways that Working Remotely Through the Internet Allows Middle-Aged Men of Leisure to Continue Participating in the Work Force

#3  –  Spares clients the sight of poor dental work and smell of horrendous coffee breath.

#2 – Obscures the existence of deep sun tan resulting from countless hours on the [choose one or more: golf course / tennis court / sail boat]  “Does this guy ever work?”

Drum Roll Please . . .

#1 – No need for expensive hearing aids.  Just turn up the phone volume!

You might ask, “Where does Robert find information and analysis about current events of the day?”

The answer is that he is not a news junkie, but he tries to keep up through email subscriptions to various news and opinion sites. He also takes a look at the New York Times and Los Angeles Times every day (although he usually gives up in disgust after reading few few celebrity white male outrage and wardrobe malfunction stories each day).

He tends to like outlets that publish essays by people who are scientists and experts in a field, and people who have actually held jobs with real responsibility. Journalists, not so much.

Here’s some of what shows up in his in-box.

FiveThirtyEight
Vox
Project Syndicate
National Affairs
Foreign Affairs
The Atlantic
Marginal Revolution

Heads up on the trail to school, kids.  Or, should I say, heads down.

Err, the creator of the family is always busy with something!

Is Marx Still Relevant?, Peter Singer, Project Syndicate.

In case you missed it in college (or didn’t understand it, like Robert), here is one more chance to try to understand Marx’s “materialization” of Hegel.

Bottom line concerning Marx’s legacy, according to Singer:  Marx was wrong to think that humans are not self-interested a-holes by nature and he was wrong to think that changing the economic system would result in unbounded productivity. But, to his credit, Marx linked ideas about religion and political institutions to the tools we use to satisfy our needs (and resulting economic structures) in a way that we all now take for granted. Pretty simple. But nice to hear one of the world’s most influential philosophers say it.

Seems to Robert that this is exactly like the way we talk about Freud (which Robert also does not understand). He was totally wrong about penis envy and he set us on a (destructive) side path that has taken 70 years to correct, but on the bright side, we now all know what “subconscious” means when criminal defense attorneys talk about it. Hurrah!