During our trip to Mexico, my wife and I were the victims of one of their infamous police “shake-downs,” where those driving cars with U.S. license plates are pulled over, told they had run a stop sign (or committed some …
Category: Sustainability
Some Arguments for the Existence of God Are Better Than Others
In arguing about the existence of God, people have invoked a great number of different lines of reasoning. For my money, the idea that morality cannot exist without God and the threat of eternal punishment is perhaps the lamest of …
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Donate All Unwanted Items That Have Value to Others
This is funny, but it makes an important point: it’s wrong to throw away things that have value to other people. When the intensity of my business career vanished about a decade ago, I gave away four suits, and at …
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Tagged with: humanitarianism and environmentalism
Book Covers
Here are some useful tips about book covers. My first two books were #1 Amazon best-sellers in their respective categories, meaning that they both sold a few hundred or perhaps a thousand copies on a certain day. Needless to say, …
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Why Talent Is No Longer Required in Music
It’s (note spelling) sad indeed that talent is no longer necessary for success in the music business, but it should come as a surprise to no one that industry executives have capitalized on the degraded tastes of modern society.
Tagged with: degraded tastes of modern society
Universal Healthcare
Here’s a reminder that the United States is the only country in the developed world whose citizens routinely die of treatable disease.
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God Works in Not-So-Mysterious Ways
No need for comment here.
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We’re At Loggerheads
Well, here we are. Echoing what Sen. Lindsey Graham said a few days ago about “riots in the streets,” the former president is pledging to incite yet another insurrection if the U.S. criminal code is applied to him. And this …
Tagged with: DoJ authorizing all future presidents to steal classified highly sensitive documents that endanger our intelligence community and national security more generally, former president pledging to incite insurrection, Trump is the victim of the "most egregious assault on democracy in the history of our country."
Labor Laws Weren’t Simply Wished Into Being
Shown here: Oyster shuckers from South Carolina in 1912. Josie (6 years old), Bertha (6 years old) and Sophie (10 years old) would start work at 4 AM at the Maggioni Canning Co. Here’s a question: How do you think …
There’s More Than One Good Reason to Get Back to Nature
I was a fairly avid camper in my youth, but it sounds pretty unappealing at age 67. Having said that, the author of the meme makes an excellent point.
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