Jim Leff's Slog

El Salvador Day 1: Strong Start with Grandma Rice Pupusas El Salvador Day 2: Típicos Pupusas weren’t the only long-time favorite foods ...

While I stall finishing my remaining El Salvador trip reports... A chef friend addresses an old worry of mine:

Go back to Day 1 Day 2 is brought to you by Perpetually Dancing Fishnet Grandma, who does not exist in even the same universe as  Day 1 R...

Olocuilta is what Brazilians would call a "favela"; a rickety hovel of sheet-metal housing dozens, perhaps hundreds, of small-time...

People don't fully recognize the immense and versatile documentary power of a smart phone camera while on the go, especially while trave...

Coming soon after my rave for "Compartment No 6" , currently in theaters, which noted that "sitting in a movie theater watch...

I haven't seriously worried about getting COVID since my second vaccine shot last March. Meanwhile, scads of my friends spent that yea...

In my recent posting "Sunk Cost Prolongs Idiocy" , I noted that adults don't learn (because it requires conceding ignorance), ...

A friend is having problems with a paranoid schizophrenic in his life. I've had a couple of those, plus I've dealt with a broad swat...

Repeating some themes previously discussed, but tying them together a bit more neatly. Sunk-Cost Fallacy ( noun ) The phenomenon whereby ...