Author Archives: Tom

Aloha from Kauai!

Just got back from a week in Kauai. Thanks to Dave for letting me crash at his house. Every day we took the fishing boat out or played golf. Every night we grilled fish and steaks. Many cigars were smoked. Many glasses of scotch and cognac were consumed. I slept like a baby. I wept privately after I said goodbye.

What? It happened again.

Today is 03 March 2016 and I just realized that I didn’t update this website in February. Dammit. This is the second time this has happened. I guess I just don’t have much to say any more.

Cui Bono

‘Cui bono’ is a latin phrase that means “for whose benefit”. This phrase has guided me for my entire life. It must be something that you are born with because I certainly didn’t get this philosophy from two public school teacher parents or 20 years of public schooling.

Why? Why do you want me to do that? I’ve always questioned authority. This attitude got me in trouble more than a few times during my enlistment in the US Navy.

Today I’m overwhelmed with appeals to authority. Buy this, drink that, don’t do the things I tell you not to do.

Who benefits? Certainly not myself.

Kill your television.