Day: July 1, 2011

Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Two Imaginary Problems: Deep Natural Gas Wells & The Pebble Mine

We make a minor breakthrough when we realize that bribes are the major component of government decisions. Bribes come from two goals. The first is a desire of the briber to maintain existing cash flows. They may be described as “Old Cash Flow Bribers”. The most powerful among them are the established producers of energy, […]
Ceiling painting of Christ and his apostles

Not a Good Idea to let Spiritual Gravity Pull us Down

All but the most saintly of us are stuck, in varying degrees, in one or more different kinds of quicksand. There are “spiritual quicksands”, into which we are pulled by “spiritual gravity”. There are seven kinds of spiritual quicksands. Those varieties of temptation are there to pull us more deeply into the mire. If we […]