Author Archives: Stephen Futterer

“Supreme Idiot”

I’ve started reading “Napoleon: A Life” by Andrew Roberts and from his introduction alone several key features of the great warrior-statesman arise. The first is that he was a voracious reader and student of history, further aided by a prodigious memory. He excelled at mathematics, geography, and philosophy, devouring the texts of Rousseau, Voltaire, Plutarch,Continue reading ““Supreme Idiot””

“Still Life with Shoe”

Went on a morning walkabout and passed this unusual tableaux featuring a shoe, a plastic fork and some uncertain green vegetable material. I just snapped the pic and later, using my iPhone, had fun fiddling around with it. Here it is in black-and-white. I’ll let you judge which has more reach… Next, I used Chat-GPTContinue reading ““Still Life with Shoe””

“The Rot Runs Slow and Deep”

Aside from the Category-5 shitnado that is Trump himself, nobody has done more damage to our body politic than Mitch McConnell. And just as Trump isn’t a real Conservative — the only thing he looks to conserve or enhance is his own wealth and power — McConnell isn’t a true institutionalist. He’s the guy whoContinue reading ““The Rot Runs Slow and Deep””

“It’s A Numbers Game”

My old friend RR served up a characteristically witty comment about Bosnia-Herzegovina having an unfair advantage over their opponents in FIFA’s World Cup by fielding twice the number of players. Chat-GPT helped me to memorialize that golden little nugget. I particularly like the twin goalies! The rumor is that Donald Trump got wind of thisContinue reading ““It’s A Numbers Game””

“Jump in, the water’s great..!!”

I have more and more friends who are contemplating retirement, and I’ve dropped to 80% myself. There comes an inflection point in life wherein time is more valuable than money. Many consider the Medicare birthday, age 65, to be a natural stopping point (in finance, the age is closer to 40, but think of allContinue reading ““Jump in, the water’s great..!!””