misc.

Out of touch with reality, and I went to UFla and UMich not Wharton, but there's not much that's dumber than tariffs, which hurt everybody on both sides. My econ, finance, and international business courses taught me, as I recall, that the one possible justification for trade tariffs is the "infant industry" argument, and that only temporary and still arguable. Want to pay more for your Buick that was made in China? Put tariffs on it so people buy more American-made Hondas instead, but the Honda will be more pricy too, because some of its parts are imported. International interdependence serves to help make war inadvisable and unaffordable and encourages nations to get along because it's in their financial interests even if despots whose sons and daughters are safe from the battlefield like to rattle swords at each other and parade tanks to wildly cheering crowds. Everybody likes a parade, some even like a military parade of missiles and tanks and marching troops, 

but war is evil: innocent human beings are killed and resources wasted. All government is all ways, always, all bad. Maranatha: come, Lord.

For some scientific formula that I don't know, this morning's photograph across StAndrews Bay of Magnolia Beach, BayPoint and Thomas Drive buildings, moon sinking into low horizon clouds and Mars high bright is clear and beautiful on the iPhone but fuzzy on the laptop and blog. Moon is the tiny orange spot lower right, Mars the tiny dot high left. 

Oysters moved to today. Church supper tonight. Early tomorrow back to Sacred Heart Pensacola, Malinda's appointments about the other aneurysm. A daughter's a daughter all my life.

Remembering when Patton's tanks were here in Panama City.

T