Observers Are Worried

Only posterity is unkind to the man of conventional wisdom, and all posterity does is bury him in a blanket of neglect.

— John Kenneth Galbraith discussing inequality in The Affluent Society, 1958.

• Types and Faces
• Bags and Stamps
• Observers are worried
• Jaundiced Zingers
• Lamppost
• A Taste of Africa
• Anatomy Lessons
• Home Economics
• Conundrum 65: Taxi Driver Braking Style
• Mindless Speculation
• A Seminal Lunacy
• A Debt Foretold
• 66 Ways to Franco
• The Codes of Martial Music
• Electoral Fictions
• All Available Indignities
• The Art of Omission
• The Ways of the Porcupine
• The Ziploc Factor
• Trend-surfing Alacrity
• Trouble Ticket
• Tickling John Bull's Lizard Brain
• Mango Madness
• Ghanaian Fictions
• Waiting for Godot (Khayelitsha)
• An African Leader Bestiary
• Functional Defenestration

• The Secret Life of Presentation Pete
• A Golden Encounter
• Social Studies
• Shell Games (Part I. Shame Cultures)
• Dear Mr Surgeon General Re: Meatpacking Plants
• Top Public Health Interventions
• The New Warfare
• Bloodbath, South Carolina
• The Justice and The Secretary
• Hypertext Dreams
• The Skeptic's Credo
• Cooking Session
• The Laws of Grief
• The Economics of Whimsy
• The Great Longing
• Never Never Man
• The Writing's on the Wall
• Scramble for Africa
• Normalcy Prohibition
• Masks of Civility
• Clinical Dwarfs
• A Taxonomy of Useful Idiots
• The Dining Philosophers Problem
• Season of Migration
• Restructuring Activities
• Flavor of the Month
• Shock of the Familiar
• Symphony of Deceit
• Defensive Accounting
• Liminal
• The Torrid Zone

The Corruption Tango

1. A Touch of Sleaze
2. Cease and Desist
3. The Temptation of Black Gold
4. The World's Lawyer

The Conqueror's Catechism

1. To Loot Without End
2. Droit de Seigneur
3. The Dictator Dictates
4. An Iron Fist
5. The Ruler's Rules
6. The Heavy Mantle

Soul Insurance

1. Ananse and the Chief's Scribe
2. Enter the Claims Adjuster
3. An Audience with the Linguist
4. Pity the Mink
5. Short Sale
6. Excessive Liabilities
7. Premiums Due
8. Soul Insurance, a playlist
9. Indemnity Provisions
10. Full Circle
11. Enforcement Actions
12. The Die is Cast

Buyer's Remorse

1. Buying Opportunity
2. Tempting the Town Crier
3. The Situation Thereof
4. Fair Warning
5. Caveat Emptor

• Goody Two Shoes
• Humanity's Curriculum
• Idleness Outlawed
• The Stereotype
• Important Participations
• Faint Praise
• Interstitial
• Ritual Tributes
• Uncharted Territory
• Milestone
• Rally
• Shady (or The Lottery Ticket)
• Opacity and Revelation
• The Chinese Ambassador
• Self Portrait in Verse
• The Plight of the Soccer Widow
• Soul Inspiration
• Prone
• White Graves
• Impounded
• Samory's Old Camp
• Proximate Cause
• Coyote Point
• Arms on Ghana Plane
• Threat to Reality
• The Weight of Ideas
• The First Time
• The Lobby
• The Annual Report
• The Physics of Shame
• Speak, Memory
• Fortress of Ignorance
• Coinage Capitalism
• Blue Sand
• End-User Certificates
• Operation Urgent Fury
• Brow of Discernment
• Root Cause Analysis
• The Body Wash Situation
• Ammunition Analysts
• Vox Optima
• Change of Tune
• Gremlins Do Cry
• Damage is Done

• Identification Haircut
• The Occasional Regret
• Memory Islands
• The Master and the Sea
• Proud Nimrod
• Naming is Destiny
• Love, a playlist
• Nothing to see here
• The Dynamics of Worry
• Literature Only
• Default Deny
• A Very Beautiful Thing!
• Facilitate
• Gunboat Diplomacy
• You Voted For This (And Other Songs)
• We Don't Talk Politics
• Broken Record
• Inflation Calypso
• The New Formula
• Strange Days
• Off the Hook
• Briefly Noted
• Public Nuisances 63 and 64

Timing is everything
Observers are worried