Blockchains, or why Bitcoin is not a Tulip
Skeptically, but with some audacity, I took five thousand dollars out of my savings account and bought a fraction of
Soy Cuba
A 3m22s cut-less shot by the Soviet director Mijaíl Kalatozov, from the movie Soy Cuba (1964). A brilliant piece of cinematography,
The Dumb and the Numb
A story about how an insurance company paid a Painkiller. Everybody has a doctor, and everyone needs health insurance in
Born Into This
Charles Bukowski. Always contemporary. Beautiful poem over a beautiful video.
Does one have the right to vote?
(José Eisenberg) Half America does not vote because it chooses not to, and half complaints that half of the other half, the one that voted, elected a president they consider unfit for office. Too many halves, plenty of quarters, just not enough voters.
The Roadrunner dilemma
(José Eisenberg) So far, I have not figured out what Chappaqua homeowners and government authorities think of coyotes. Do they love them as part of the wildlife surrounding their houses? Or do they fear them as dangerous species, like the bears that haunt other regions of America’s northeast?
