In the 45 years I’ve lived in/near Los Angeles, there have been few major changes. It’s still the entertainment capital of the world, while continuing to feature obnoxious traffic and housing prices. Like most if not all of the largest …
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Logic vs. Emotion
The idea that Dale Carnagie expressed in the first part of the 20th Century originated thousands of years earlier with the ancient Greeks; in fact, Aristotle wrote an entire treatise on the subject. It’s probably more important today than ever …
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Our Reasons to Feel Safe from Government Are Not What They Used to Be
Before Trump, no politically active U.S. citizen thought he was taking a risk to his personal safety by criticizing the president and/or his administration. This country, and, in fact, the entire West, had experienced the Enlightenment (aka the Age of …
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RFK Jr. — a “Frightening Man”
If you were asked to name the most dangerous person in Trump’s cabinet, your first thought might be Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, whose only qualification for the job of running the Pentagon is his tenure at Fox News and …
Eternal Hell
Even when I was a small boy, I had a tough time believing everlasting torture in hell was a fair punishment for anything that a person could possibly do, regardless of how heinous, in a single lifetime.
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Tesla Sales Plummet, as Drivers Refuse to Support Elon Musk
Was the damage that Elon Musk inflicted on Tesla worth it?
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The Legitimacy of Property Taxes
I remind the reader who sent me the meme here that the main use of property tax is the funding of public schools. Speaking for myself, this is a sacrifice I’ve always happily made, both before and after I had …
Yes, Rule of Law Is Eroding, But Can’t We Fix That?
I have to admit, Roberts’ statement here does seem stupid in the extreme. Also, the idea that a sitting president can’t be charged with a crime is asinine; it’s antithetical to the idea of democracy.
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Democracies Are Fragile
What Frank Herbert says here is true. It seems to be another way of saying what Plato did: “Only those who don’t want power are qualified to hold it.” Perhaps this is the reason that democracies have a finite shelf …
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Conversation Between the Founding Fathers
Senior energy analyst Glen Doty remarks: This made me smile. And a reader adds: “No felons” seemed pretty obvious. Didn’t know we had to write that one down. The 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution contemplates the idea that voters may …
