Linda Brady Traynham
Something’s Changed
Thursday, June 24th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Analysis ranges from what to do when your chemistry professor hands you a beaker with instructions to tell him what is in it by Friday to the sudden feeling mothers get that “it’s too quiet,” meaning they had better go find out what their children are up to. I could say [...]
We’re All Racists Now
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Well, actually, we were all always racists because we can’t help it, back to the Big Bang. It is probable that the Big Bang resulted because the Big Banger couldn’t stand the vacuous Bangee, and that the asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs because it hated dinosaurs or perhaps the earth or [...]
Separating Oil and Water
Wednesday, June 16th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Anger is not a problem-solving tool. Anger will not choose a profitable stock, nor will it lead to peace in the Middle East. Anger cannot reveal the identity of the “unknown” solution in your beaker in a chemistry lab, it cannot produce harmony in your marriage, and it has yet to [...]
Memorial Day
Monday, May 31st, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Gee, I’m glad we had Memorial Day, although the media never mentioned it, and my frivolous thought is that you can now wear white shoes until Labor Day, although bone is always a more chic choice. We have our own version of Memorial Day most days here at the ranch, and [...]
Racial Profiling
Sunday, May 23rd, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham It’s one of my Dagny Taggart days: “Gentlemen, there is not a single mind left in the Obama crowd.” To get even more Randian we have the situation in Arizona, where their legislators, despite large Hispanic influence, attempted to make their state a safer place to live by passing an incredibly [...]
You Can’t Eat Gold
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Actually, a few people do eat gold and silver after it has been pounded tissue-paper thin and used as a decorative touch on very costly confections. In general, however those screeching about “barbarous relics” are quite correct that we cannot eat gold. Where they err, as one would think obvious even [...]
The Stuff Of Legends
Wednesday, May 12th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham I haven’t written much lately because both the financial and political news, at best, look like the very thin libretto of a Gilbert & Sullivan operetta, while the worst was surely written by a particularly bad Japanese comic strip writer. The only “transparency” in government these days is the gauze-thin cloaks [...]
Brother You Asked For It!
Friday, May 7th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Or perhaps instead of quoting Francisco D’Anconia, we should go with a line from “Judas’ Song:” “The world’s in ruins around us, and all because of you.” Okay, brothers, you demanded 14 paychecks a year instead of only 12, and you got them. Shorter work weeks with fewer hours per day [...]
Vindictive Uses Of Government
Monday, April 19th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham Harming your neighbor through bureaucratic means is on the rise, and why not, when anonymity is guaranteed and no action will be taken against you if your allegations are not true? Communists and the Code Napoleon! Wasting our time in many ways is the result of increasing government intrusion into our [...]
Intentional Infliction of Emotional Distress VS Freedom of Speech
Thursday, April 8th, 2010Author Linda Brady Traynham I learned a terrific point of law tonight, one which cheers me after a week of being in a funk over fifteen months that feel like thirty years during which not a day has passed during which I have not felt hated, oppressed, threatened, outraged, and depressed by all that “hope [...]