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The 9/11 Memorial isn’t our gig
Have you ever been to a concert in which the band invites someone up on the stage to play with them? It is a pretty exciting experience; musicians jamming together in a new way, making pretty spectacular music. Then the guy gets off of the stage and they go back to playing. He leaves, even though the…
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What if China fails?
I was sitting in Barnes & Noble a few weeks ago and some book title I can no longer remember caught my eye. It made me think of this question: what if China fails? It got me thinking. What if the Chinese economy collapsed today? What would it mean for all of us here? This…
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Not Mindless
Prime Minister David Cameron was on vacation while parts of London burned. After a few days, he decided to make an appearance. England’s leaders and members of the media have called the uprising in several poor communities in London “mindless”. Condemning atrocious acts as “mindless” is a way of totally discrediting the other party’s humanity. …
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Missed communication in misbehavior
Parents struggle from the moment their babies are born to understand them. We listen intently to hear the different cries–the I’m-hungry cry; the I-want-you-to-hold-me cry; the I-refuse-to-admit-I’m-tired cry; and the far too common I-just-want-my-way cry. The discerning parent learns to tell the difference in these cries. Each has a differed tone and different facial expressions.…
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Republican civil war?
After the hoopla over the debt ceiling is now officially over and there couldn’t be any adverse effects on the poor, but thank goodness the armageddon that we imposed on ourselves and then averted–good work, Superman!–is no longer a threat, we can go onto other stuff: like petty politics! If you just can’t get enough,…
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Why is bad meat cheap?
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
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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The Two Simple Solutions
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…