Visual Thinking and Occasional Odds and Ends

Entrepreneurs are not Job Creators. America has needed to create its own myths in order to make itself a people.   While nations like the UK have tales of King Arthur and the Vikings their sagas, tales which predate the modern nation-state, we had to invent our myths in plain view.   Thus, we know that it was the well-meaning Parson Weems who made up the story of George Washington and the cherry tree.   And another myth, that “we” never lost a war – at least up till Vietnam, seems to have just happened.   It was Puritan John Winthrop who said their new colony would be a “city upon a hill,” that would draw the attention of the world.    This eventually became a “shining city upon a hill,” and has been used to describe American exceptionalism by folks as varied as John Kennedy and Ronald Reagan. Sometimes, the myth is harmless, as it is with George Washington and the cherry tree.   In other cases, the myth is delusional and leads to bad policy.   American exceptionalism is

What is it about women and their libido.  I mean really? Women who need sex and must have it so often that they need to take a pill to prevent pregnancy.   Well I do believe.   And Democrats want us to pay for the pills. …. Ok, that is not what it’s about.   To begin with, lets start with whose libido this is about.   Birth control was never about women’s libido.   Sorry, as a teenager in the 60s, I heard lots of stories about women who had bundles of children in the days before the pill.   Sure there were also rubbers but men hate rubbers and truth to tell, the pill put women in control.   So finally, with birth control, women could accept their partner’s advances and not get pregnant.   And it WAS the partner who pushed the issue.   As a man married now for 37 years, I can tell you that it was my team doing the urging, so our libido. And what is the issue anyway?   The ACA mandates the purchase of insurance, and in most cases, these policies are not inexpensive.