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Pompeii Before the Big Blow
The eruption was just the last straw in a series of calamities. The ruins of Pompeii is one of the...
Birthing A New Dictionary
Or the N E D for the 21 Century That cat is bad(d) That’s cold I’m down How you be (question)...
When is Good Enough Not Really Good Enough?
In search of the perfect brewski. Last year in the United States we consumed 28.2 gallons of beer...
Does Your Job Prepare You For Retirement?
Psst — some jobs are better than others. The type of job you hold determines how you feel...
The Growth of Genetic Genealogy
DNA testing might give you more than just a genealogy analysis. “60 Minutes” has...
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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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Mountain Climbing
The latest pursuit of the wealthy Who hasn’t wondered about the great Himalayan peaks, and how climbers manage to scale them. Lederhosen, Tyrollean yodeling, heavy boots, were once the provisions of...
The Keys To Retirement Success
Stay vigilant and keep motivated I’ve mentioned it in other articles, but it bears repeating — successful retirement is about re-building your life from the ground up, replacing the structure and...
The Book of Charlatans:13th Century Middle Eastern Con Games
The Spanish Prisoner, Pig in a Poke, The Long Con, the Short Con and Everything In Between… Grifters, card sharks, hustlers, and ‘yeggs’, mechanics, and hand-guys, the list could go on for ever. If...
Hearing Aids: Do’s and Certainly Don’ts
The more you know… Before we begin this next installment of our ‘Things You Should Know’, we just wanted to follow up on our last edition, ‘Glasses’. Some folks liked the piece and others, not...
The Amazing Life of Ruth Slenczynska
This child prodigy has a new recording, except that now she is 97 years young. Many of us wonder what retirement will be like. Some of us adjust to it rather well while others have a much more...
AI Comes Clean
Artificial Intelligence rats itself out. Unless you’ve slept through the last few months (and who could blame you if you did), you would know that the pundits are expounding on the vast...
More Deadly than Caste
Three tiers of racist ideology. Bob Gordh In her recent bestseller Caste, Isabel Wilkerson sought to explain the nature of White Supremacist, (or simply racist) ideology in the United States. I...
Must Art Be Moral?
Can a scoundrel can make great art? The morality of a work of art is one of the oldest and most widely debated concepts in the art community today. The question is must we respect the artist as...
How Schools Can Smother Education
It’s time to reset our priorities. Bill Wood Let’s follow up a bit on the issue of imagination and how children develop through thinking about things they’ve never seen or...
Is Imagination Necessary Today?
Yes, and we can help our children develop that skill. By Bill Wood I had a long lunchtime conversation with a young mother today about her child’s imagination; about her daughter’s...
