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Horrid Customer Service From AT&T (...and a secret back door)
We've all had bad experiences with the nightmare of so-called "Customer Service." Not that I want to play Can You Top This, but I'd be surpr...
Polarization Over Abortion Is Political Media Nonsense
DO NOT get swept up into the money-chasing, "Simplify & Polarize" strategy of the politicians and political media. The fact is, 85% of Ameri...
Episode 120 - (Don't Get) Framed By The Media
Political polarization in America is a MYTH!!! Follow the money and it's easy to see how the media manipulates into believing this baloney.
The Scariest Echo Chamber On Earth
Living and/or working in an echo chamber is safe and comfortable, but unconscionably lazy and dumb. It is SO, so easy to intentionally - or...
Episode 118 - Best of Times Or Worst of Times?
It's the BEST of times. Not even close. It's HUGELY better to be alive today than ever.
Episode 117 - Bullshidology 101
I just got an invitation to connect on LinkedIn from a guy whose profile headline is, "A preeminent expert in leadership development through...
Episode 116 - Ikigai ...or something like it
Simple, profound and extremely helpful for career planning. Dive deeper and Ikigai becomes a set of guidelines for your whole life.
More Pandemic Perspective
As we all slowly begin to emerge from our shelter in place lockdown we need to continue to examine and think about what happened, what we di...
Quic Thought 65 - I Trust My T Cells
Am I a crazy daredevil, or am I hopelessly risk averse? No offense, but I don't give a damn what your answer to that question may be.
American Politics - Division By Design
Trump's ability to be an effective President of the United States of America and Commander-In-Chief is incidental to the primary goal of the...
Quick Thought 64 - Perspective
This COVID crisis is serious, but... it's also merely the lastest catastrophe in a centuries-long chain of catastrophes. Everything will be...
A Capitalist's Path to Community Service
The short answer to "What's a capitalist's path to community service?" Implement a Willful Impact Business Unit that makes a profit and clim...
Quick Thought 63 - It's STILL Half-Full!
So the COVID crisis got you down? Consider this thought from M. Thomas Blalock, III... "Hate the pandemic. Love the opportunity."
Episode 112 - Reopening the Economy vs. the Value of a Human Life
Like it or not you, me and everyone else we know is part and parcel of placing a dollars and cents value on a human life. Get your head arou...
Quick Thought 62 - Sunset the CARES Act
All of it! It all needs to become null and void. The CARES Act got passed in a gigantic hurry. I'm OK with that. BUT... When the crisis is o...
Quick Thought 61 - The Constitution ...amazing!
The Constitution is an amazingly extraordinary document that captures amazingly extraordinary ideas and ideals.
Episode 110 - "Damn The Post Office" Revisited
Seems like I touched a few nerves with my " Whither the Post Office " episode a couple of weeks ago. Enough so that I feel compelled to resp...
What's a libertarian to do? What's an AMERICAN to do?
With politicians and bureaucrats using crises to suck up more power for themselves, we Americans must insist upon and/or take it upon oursel...
Quick Thought 60 - The Letter Sweater
It was obsolete and dopey. And I never did wear it. But I still knew where it was after the 4+ decades and 11 homes I've had since my colleg...