10 Plus Days til Marathon

      Here’s our latest installment.  Just a little over a week to go until the Dick’s Sporting Goods 2019 Pittsburgh Marathon.  This is for everyone but Senior runners can benefit the discussion by David Dixon Lentz who will attempt to finish the marathon at the age of 64 years, 10 months.  Senior running, Read More …

4 Weeks Until Marathon

  Here’s the latest on our Dick’s Sporting Goods 2019 Pittsburgh Marathon Training.  Only four weeks to go.  Big challenges lie ahead.  But we are still intending to line up and run it.  In this video we talk about our latest physical and mental challenges and what we intend to do about them.  Time is short.  Read More …

CALORIC MISCALCULATION: DIET AND EXERCISE

BALANCE…Diet and Exercise: Caloric Miscalculation  12.15.18   Got on the scale this morning, Saturday December 15th.   Sheer devastation.  I weighed 202.4 pounds.  This after a 199.pound weigh-in eight days ago.  Worse, my objective was a flat 198.  Now, admittedly I changed my feast date etc due to the forecast of a substantial snowfall for 12/09/18 Read More …

The Brothers Karamazov v Rao’s Solution

[Book Reviews/Analysis.] Dostoevsky’s classic novel,”The Brothers Kazamarov”, really goes to heart of what this website is about.  Faith versus reason. Ancient assumptions, articles of faith, (and sometimes prejudicial ones at that) versus what can be discerned through rational, objective and scientific analysis based on an objective determination of the facts.   In contrast to the often Read More …

2018 First Half Wrap Up

  [Analysis.] A quick review of the first half of the year 2018.  We provide an assessment of the stock market.  We touch on the recent Supreme Court union dues case (Janus), we note the relevance of Rao’s Solution and, ever mindful of the need for “balance” we address our personal health and do….ahem….72 pushups….yes Read More …

FREE TRADE and RICARDO’s COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE

Please see the basic, hopefully educational video by David Dixon Lentz (or, as he prefers just David Lentz) above. It is intended to accurately convey information and/or theories which, we believe are either readily accepted as being valid by accredited colleges and universities and/or have an objective rational basis that justifies further investigation by those Read More …