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)
• 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
• 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
• The Corruption Tango
• Cease and Desist
• The Temptation of Black Gold
• The World's Lawyer
• Symphony of Deceit
• Defensive Accounting
• Liminal
• The Conqueror's Catechism
• The Torrid Zone
• Goody Two Shoes
• Humanity's Curriculum
• Idleness Outlawed
• Broken Record
• Inflation Calypso
• The New Formula
• Strange Days
• Off the Hook
• Briefly Noted
• Public Nuisances 63 and 64

Soul Insurance

• Ananse and the Chief's Scribe

Timing is everything
Observers are worried