Words    Words    Words

Some time ago, my grandson Miklos (age 3) decided on the generic term “mean guy” to describe any and all villains, evil-doers (especially the ones in Spider-man), and not-nice people.  Hence Jeff “Peffa” Bertilson and my daughter Toni and I (egged on my TJ)  thought the following had to be done.
I think I’m so civilized cause I’m [...]

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Here is where I’ll gleefully read posts from those who liked it and merrily skip posts from those who didn’t.

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A place to talk about it, if you want.

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1. If you have a license from another state, you must pass the written exam to get a Minnesota license.  Either because someone is an idiot, or because the laws in Minnesota are different from everywhere else, in which case someone is an idiot.
2. No one will tell you this until you are actually there, [...]

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My daughter Toni and Joel Rosenburg conspired to kidnap me in Texas and take me back to Minnesota. Joel’s wife Felicia and daughter Judy, as well as Toni, did amazing amounts of work loading the truck. Judy organized things as well. Toni drove the truck (towing my car). She drove every [...]

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Sorry to ignore this blog for so long. It’ll probably continue. I’m in the process of moving back to Minnesota. Bear with me.

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When I was growing up, calling something “unscientific” was a curse–I can still hear the contempt in father’s voice when he pronounced that word.  That is part of why I’ve developed such a fascination for science in unlikely places; for example, the science of football, or writing, or poker.  Yes, there are elements of poker [...]

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This section is called “The Equivalent form of value”
Page 55: “We have seen that commodity A (the linen), by expressing its value in the use-value of a commodity differing in kind (the coat), at the same time impresses upon the latter a specific form of value, namely that of equivalent.  The commodity linen manifests its [...]

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I was half an hour outside of Minneapolis last Thursday when I got a call from my youngest daughter saying that her mother, my estranged wife,  had died.  None of us had expected this.   She died of congestive heart failure.  She would have been delighted, because this meant breast cancer didn’t get her.
Her mother died [...]

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This subsection is “Quantitative determination of Relative value”
Page 53: “Every commodity, whose value it is intended to express, is a useful object of a given quantity, as 15 bushels of corn, or 100 lbs of coffee.  And a given quantity of any commodity contains a definite quantity of human labour.  The value-form must therefore not [...]

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