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So, I Was Thinking About a Few Things

By Bill Clontz December 14, 2021 December 14, 2021 Leave a Comment

Some Loose Ends as the Year Draws Toward a Close

December Reflections – Not Exactly Santa’s List But Here We Go

It is that time of year wherein we are all prone to start thinking about the year that is almost over, and the one about to knock on our door. In that spirit, five things to reflect upon, in good and bad news categories, are rattling around in my head of late. Let’s take a look.

The Economy – Especially Inflation: Take a Deep Breath

It seems hard to get people at large to recognize it,

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Why the Chip Shortage is So Important

By Bill Clontz December 5, 2021 December 7, 2021 2 Comments

This is a Vulnerability. It is Also a World-Class Opportunity

A Chip! A Chip! My Kingdom for a Chip!

All due apologies to William Shakespeare and King Richard III for the borrowed line above. It seems to fit exactly how a lot of people feel about this global shortage of computer chips we have all been hearing about over the last few months.

The shortage truly is global, in both geographical terms and in terms of what systems are affected. People are waiting for months to get a new car because automakers cannot get the chips needed.

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Sometimes the Big Important Things Show Up in Small Ways

By Bill Clontz November 18, 2021 November 19, 2021 4 Comments

Two Events in Congress Answer the Question- How Bad Could It Get?

A Congressman from Arizona Shows There is No Bottom

A few days ago Rep Paul Gosar ran a little video on Twitter, depicting a cartoon in which he murdered another member of Congress, someone who has already had frequent death threats. This at a time of high levels of political violence here and around the world. Here it ranges from assaults on the Capitol to menacing crowds outside a school board member’s home.

Gosar thought his cartoon was funny. No harm or threat or insult intended.

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It’s 11 PM – Do You Know Where Your Representative Is?

By Bill Clontz November 8, 2021 November 9, 2021 2 Comments

A Few Notes About Passage of the Infrastructure Bill

A Long Night – Following Long Months

The title for this posting is a bit of a chuckle that will ring a bell to readers of a certain age. Years ago, that line was often played on TV as a public service message, asking parents if they knew where their children were at that moment. Since sometimes it feels as though our congressional representatives are childlike, the phrase came to mind.

But last week, they finally did a good thing and pulled off what sometimes felt like an impossible task.

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The Main Lessons from Last Tuesday’s Election

By Bill Clontz November 5, 2021 November 5, 2021 5 Comments

There is a Lot of Noise Out There. Let’s Boil It Down

How Bad Was It for the Democrats?

Well, it sure wasn’t swell. But a bit of perspective takes some of the edge off.

Let’s start with the Virginia governor’s race. Virginia has an odd law that governors cannot succeed themselves. In the long history of that state, only two people have ever come back and won a second term after leaving office. In addition, the party that won the presidency loses the governorship in Virginia about 99% of the time.

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Revisiting An Old American Curse/Blessing

By Bill Clontz October 11, 2021 October 12, 2021 1 Comment

Getting Individual vs Community Balance Has Always Been Tough – Now We Seem Lost

Schools of American Thought

America has an interesting, to put it mildly, mix of philosophies about how we relate to each other, the country, and to ourselves as individuals. As we cruise deeply into the 21st Century the two main approaches to such relationships seem in sharp contrast, contributing to much of the current social and political tension.

Terms like Rugged Individualism, Natural Law, and Community Responsibility are wielded like shields – or as swords. Let’s take a relook at our approach to each other as a nation.

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Texas- Something in the Drinking Water?

By Bill Clontz September 18, 2021 September 21, 2021 5 Comments

The Lone Star State Has Driven Off the Edge of Rationality

Texas is Not Unfamiliar Territory to Me

I wanted to note at the outset of this post that Texas is not unfamiliar territory to me. I lived there for about a year some time ago, in a pretty rural area in the central part of the state. In the years since, I have had business dealings and travel through the state on several occasions. I have had friends who live there, including some more recent transplants and long time, native residents. So,

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