Ab Initio--The Spleen Board

This blog was urged upon me by a buddy of mine who thinks others might wish to share my spleen as it emerges in my observations of the various genera of human folly. Topics of particular interest include politics (a most fertile field of folly), economics (a counter-intuitive obstacle course of ideas, which upon explanation make complete sense to anyone who cares to sit still for five minutes and parse them), and social and cultural observations.
It has been my position that possessing opposable thumbs confers a certain duty to use them to advantage. From what I have seen of the past 10,000 years, this duty has only occasionally been performed. The aim here is to redirect some of the wasted energy used in running the human hamster wheel to increasing the well-being of the species. And so now, this blog is open for business.