Can old fashioned tough guys save the day? I grew up in a tough neighborhood. Working class maybe...
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Who’s Better for your Portfolio?
And it’s been that way forever. We tend to believe that when it comes to financial issues and...
Lock Picking
A different kind of hobby If you’re bored with the same old stuff, here’s something...
The Real Real
Getting rid of your high-priced stuff My two young nephews often buy second hand clothing. They go...
Entitlement
How to weaken a society I am better, more precious than you are. I have the right to do whatever it...
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White Fragility
Understanding racism from the white perspective. Racism in some form or another is unavoidable...
Security or Freedom?
What do Americans really want? American voters often go to the polls claiming that they are unhappy...
Fatal Distractions
Using misinformation to steer us away from our problems. President Trump is running scared. That...
Sports in a Pandemic
The good and the bad of the re-opening Across the leagues, sports are trying to activate. This is...
Fake News
Controlling the narrative to hold onto power Fake news is nothing new. It was used as early as the...
Political Power
The most effective means of guaranteeing your rights. The murder of George Floyd in Minnesota...
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The Fourth Estate
The power to lead and mislead “There are three estates in Parliament but in the Reporters’ Gallery yonder there sits a Fourth Estate more important far than they all. It is not a figure of...
Now You Can Take It With You
Living a high quality after-life Forget the old adage “ you can’t take it with you”, because now you can. And you have options. One company will cryogenically freeze you head indefinitely until...
Who’s Better at the Economy?
It may surprise you, but it shouldn’t We tend to believe a lot of things we shouldn’t. Some “facts” are thrown out there with such repetition that eventually we don’t...
Gussie Davis
Giving credit where it’s due. If you are of our generation, then you certainly know the tune “Irene, Goodnight”. You may have heard it from the great legend of folk/protest music...
The Real Federal Handouts
Entitlement dispersion around the country There are people who gripe about entitlements — the freebees paid out to people who, as they put it, prefer to sponge off the government rather than...
Stay Social
It’s essential for your health. Maintaining an active social life gets harder with age. Little by little people we were close to move away or pass away. And when we retire, we lose about half...
An American Paradox
Holding contradictory beliefs in the same head. I’m confused. In a sense, we the people of the United States still have a Wild West mentality. We’re one of only 14 countries out of 195...
The Big Lie
Getting us moving in the wrong direction. People often assign the following to Adolph Hitler’s Minister of Propaganda Joseph Goebbels: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it...
NASCAR
Can you still make a living solely by making left turns? Most of us drive a car daily, or at least several times per month. When we drive we often make turns, both right and left, and no one cares...
The Star Spangled Banner
In the Dawn’s Early Light do we see change coming? In these times of pandemics, social unrest, and self-quarantining, sporting events are few and far between. However, I vividly remember the last...
