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Quondam Mechanics

So much has changed in the past few years, economically and socially and technologically, that almost everything we once took for granted and assumed would always be the same has been utterly transformed and made unrecognizable.
Rotary dial telephones. The milk man.The price of gas.

Isn’t there a speed limit on change? Hasn’t some law of physics [...]

A Farm in the Family

We are left with the question of what it meant to us to have that farm in the family over the years, considering the effort it has taken to keep it. The answer, of course, is that it meant a great deal, for as surely as we shaped the farm, it shaped us. It is [...]

The Tragedy of the Commons

Once upon a time a group of cattlemen shared a common field of grass on which they would graze their herds.
All was well until one rancher decided to increase his herd to boost his profit at market.
Consequently, his herd consumes more of the common pasture. He benefits individually but the collective bears the weight of [...]