Lanny on Learning

As in my recent posts, I want to focus on members of the "professional class," which I define as being in a household with income ...

My previous post, Might Members of the Professional Class Embrace Democratic Socialism? , reads more like a full White Paper than a blog pos...

This post has two different sources that served as stimuli.  One of those is the Opinion piece in the New York Times from a few days ago, Ho...

I spend an inordinate amount of time these days doing word puzzles.  As the solutions can be computer generated, one might wonder why the pu...

Matty Alou was once a Yankee too.  I watched all of the Yankee games in the Playoffs, after not watching them much at all during the regular...

Trying to relive one's life over again, avoiding the evident mistakes, hopeful in that good fortune will shine on this alternative envis...

Recently, I finished reading Tolstoy's Anna Karenina.  (I read the Kindle version , which costs $0.99.  There is a free version at Googl...

Yesterday I watched David and Lisa on YouTube.  The movie is from 1962 and is done in black and white, mainly without background music and ...

While I mean this to be a stand-alone post, in some sense it can be taken as a sequel to my post from Saturday.  It was motivated by asking ...