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Why is bad meat cheap?
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4 min read
Walking toward the back of Kroger to buy some ground beef, one notices very quickly that the expensive stuff is on the left and degrades as you move to the right. On the far left is Laura’s Lean Beef. It is organic and farm-raised, and 93% fat free. It is $5.49 per pound. To it’s…
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The self-imposed debt limit
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3 min read
Imagine that you have about $35,000 in available credit. You’ve taken a Dave Ramsey course and have reduced your debt to under $10,000. You give yourself some room to maneuver, imposing on yourself a $15,000 limit because you don’t want to get yourself in trouble again as you try to bring that number down. But…
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Priorities
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2 min read
Where I live, people don’t think too highly of rules. If you don’t believe me, sit at any intersection and wait. It won’t take long to watch someone run a red light. It could also explain why the region is so conservative protestant. Hate on the rules and the government is the norm. But like…
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The Two Simple Solutions
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4 min read
One of the tragedies of the passing of the modern age was its perceived simplicity. There were facts and we knew them. And if we didn’t know them, then we could discover them. And even though we can intellectually understand complexity in the postmodern age, we haven’t truly grappled with an important revealed truth: for…
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playing cards
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3 min read
As I climbed into the car, my daughter told me that she and her Nana were “playing cards” in the backseat. After a minute, I realized it was a modified version of “Go Fish”. “Do you have some 2’s?” she asks her Nana as I pull out of the parking lot. “Sophia, do you have…
Make a New Normal
