Clearing the Tabs September 30, 2021

September 16
Political Alchemy, Part II: Turning Spending Increases into Tax Cuts

September 17
Critical Race Theory Distracts from Widespread Academic Underachievement

September 19
Reagan, Biden, and the Facts on Government Spending

Survival of the City: The Need to Reopen the Metropolitan Frontier (Review)

September 20
Building on Jacobs: The City Emergent; Beyond Streets and Buildings
A science of cities reveals the way cities grow, and why.

September 21
What Happens When a Country Depends on Russia for Natural Gas?

Who Bears The Burden Of Taxes on Business?

Robert Woodson retires after 40 years of empowering communities

September 22
Eliminating crude oil is like jumping out of a plane without a chute

September 23
Even With Climate Change, the World Isn’t Doomed
Humanity has overcome far greater problems before and can do so again.

September 24
Congress can’t keep spending without consequences
Modern monetary theory says government overspending doesn’t matter. That’s wrong. The debt ceiling vote is an opportunity to address this problem.

September 25
The Enduring Relevance of Mises and Hayek’s Critique of Socialism

September 26
Here’s The List Of 317 Wind Energy Rejections The Sierra Club Doesn’t Want You To See

September 27
Never Going Back
What if they opened the office and nobody came?

September 30
A Profession Is Not a Personality
Reducing yourself to any single characteristic, whether it be your title or your job performance, is a deeply damaging act.

Joe Biden, Nowhere Man

Clearing the Tabs September 15, 2021

Here are some things I've read so far this month or will be reading soon. A lot of people are staying at home looking for things to read, so I've broken this month into two parts again, expect a post on September 30 as well. Also, just because I post something here does not mean I agree with it, it simply means it made me think and I think my readers might enjoy it.

September 1

The Real (and Growing) Problem with Social Security

Teach That Man Some Geography

September 2
The Secret to Happiness at Work
Your job doesn’t have to represent the most prestigious use of your potential. It just needs to be rewarding.

For these Marines, a constant rush to zero hour to rescue stranded Americans

Peter Meijer: A dark moment for our country

September 3
Hurricane Ida Isn’t the Whole Story on Climate
The number of landfall hurricanes isn’t rising and the world is getting better at mitigating their destruction.

Our bargain for normal is failing

15 minutes

September 7

Cancel culture in climate change

The Fading Family
The world's major economies face a serious demographic crunch.

September 9
Flight 93 crash in Shanksville on 9/11: ‘The first Americans to fight back against terrorists happened here’

September 10
Mag-Lev May Be Dead; TX HSR on Life Support

September 13
Energy Prices in Europe Hit Records After Wind Stops Blowing
Heavy reliance on wind power, coupled with a shortage of natural gas, has led to a spike in energy prices

September 14

Dubious climate science about the Texas cold disaster

Information Wanted for David Hart Scott

David Hart Scott was a book editor at Coward, McCann & Geoghegan, Inc. In 1980 (not sure for how long exactly), Mr. Scott lived in Blue Hill, Maine. David Scott died in March of 2000 at the age of 89.

I am hoping, and wondering, if any family members still have any of the papers, correspondence, artifacts from Mr. Scott’s days as a book editor, especially as they relate to Fred(erick) Lieb. I am not interested in owning such items, but researching and looking for information.

Here is an obituary for Mr. Scott’s wife from 1984, perhaps some of these details might find a living relative.

Katherine Gorton Scott '31, Blue Hill, 
Maine; June 19. Sigma Xi, Phi Beta 
Kappa. Survivors include her husband, 
David H. Scott '32, Box 141, Blue Hill 
04614; a daughter; and a sister, Emma 
Gorton Peirce '33.

Mr. Scott had a brother named Robert Litchfield Scott. Maybe someone might find this post online and know someone from the family.

Please email me at SteveParkhurst @ Gmail if you can help.