UberThoughts USA

Friday, July 26, 2019

Visiting Column #18 -- I'll Be HBCUing You, Kamala

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Oh, dear. So now Kamala Harris, the wannabe president, has proposed what she refers to as an "investment" of $60 billion of your...
Thursday, June 20, 2019

Visiting Column #17 -- The Land Mines in the "Reparations" Discussion

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It seems pretty silly that the Democrats in Congress, the party that supported slavery for generations, and which even in 1964 did not suppo...
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Monday, June 10, 2019

Visiting Column #16 -- Tariffs and Diplomacy in the Land of Trump

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Some brilliant clown who runs the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (I think his name is actually "Brilliant", but we don't critique na...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Visiting Column #15 -- Playing Out the Impeachment Musical

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It should probably have music written for it, in the style of an early-1960s Broadway musical with production number choreography, that sort...
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Friday, April 19, 2019

Visiting Column #14 -- Kate Smith and Mickey Mantle

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I truly don't have to come up with more reasons to hate the New York Yankees.  I dislike the city itself, can't abide being there (i...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Visiting Column #13 -- Tax Returns, Subpoenas and Stalin

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As I start this, the Democrats in Congress, through their various committees, are trying to do a subpoena of President Trump's tax retur...
Friday, March 29, 2019

Visiting Column # 12 -- Shall We Teach THIS, Please?

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We are subjected on about a weekly basis to factual errors in economics on the part of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, the "honors"...
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Thursday, March 21, 2019

Visiting Column #11 -- Where a Third Party Could Actually Happen

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If you go back to the very, very first column on this site , you will be aware that I have believed that there is no such thing as a "m...
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Monday, March 4, 2019

Visiting Column #10 -- What the Tax Cut Pays For

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I have now done my taxes for 2018. OK, I didn't do them myself; we have an accountant prepare them since I am a sole-proprietorship bu...
Friday, March 1, 2019

Visiting Column #9 -- The Performing Arts and the People

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OK, I haven't written for a while.  This piece has the kind of title that might get a few more people to read it, than if I titled it mo...
Monday, February 11, 2019

Visiting Column #8 -- Revisiting Global Warming

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Over four years back, when I was new to writing this column and dumping out on a daily basis some things I'd wanted to say for a long ti...
Thursday, February 7, 2019

Visiting Column #7 -- Declining Value of WAR

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If you are a baseball fan -- and if you are, you already know this is to be a piece on baseball -- you have hear the term "WAR."  ...
Monday, February 4, 2019

Visiting Column #6 -- No Room for Daddy?

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As I write this, Virginia's governor, Ralph Northam, is calling an emergency meeting of his staff to try to decide whether to step down ...
Wednesday, January 30, 2019

Visiting Column #5 -- Did I Have to Sit There?

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So this is not about a challenging trip on a commercial flight, or anything remotely like that.  It is, however, a brief vignette from my li...
Monday, January 14, 2019

Visiting Column #4 -- Put "Our" Money Where "Your" Mouth Is, Nancy

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So Nancy Pelosi, the farmer's wife to Chuck Schumer's farmer from Grant Wood's American Gothic in their recent wooden response t...
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Robert Sutton
Robert Sutton had written a daily piece for this site for four years, and now adds an occasional "visiting column." A graduate of M.I.T. with a degree in biology, he has also attended the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and the Boston Conservatory of Music -- a fine example of his combined inability to do one thing well, or the diversity of his interests, whatever you would like to infer. He is also a four-time international champion in barbershop singing as well as doing historical research on early quartet champions, and was a well-known performer of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas in the 1970s. He has performed the National Anthem for MLB games at Fenway Park, Camden Yards, Memorial Stadium and whatever the White Sox stadium is called this week. He does have an actual profession, too, consulting to the defense contracting community for many years. He routinely answers email at bsutton@alum.mit.edu or on Twitter (@rmosutton) and is happy to hear from readers . . . "UberThoughtsUSA" reflects the "other" meaning of the German word "über" -- "in regard to." The posts here, every weekday might, on a given day, be in regard to -- "über" -- almost anything.
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