When I was in business, my sales team would occasionally write proposals for services that my company had never delivered, and someone would ask, “Craig, if we get this project, how will we deal with it?” My normal response: “I’m …
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I just met a guy whose career was drilling for oil; he’d been active all over North America and the Middle East for about 40 years until he retired ten years ago. Naturally, I asked him for his thoughts on …
Don’t forget: we live in a country in which about half of our people approve of this, i.e., that the president can threaten to remove the citizenship of anyone he doesn’t like.
As the ancient Greeks used to say, “The only people worthy of power are those who have no desire for it.” Fast-forward to current-day America and behold that we’ve elected president the single most power-hungry person in our nation’s history. …
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-VA) joins MSNBC’s Ali Velshi to discuss Donald Trump’s shifting explanation of the Ukraine weapons pause and why, according to Rep. Vindman, it’s “dangerous” that our “Commander-in-Chief is the last to know.” Speaking strictly for myself, I …
A few years ago, when I was lucky enough to run into and introduce myself to author, activist, and heavy-duty environmentalist Bill McKibben at a conference of the Bioneers in Northern California, I congratulated him for his 40 years of …
I love this guy’s idea here, and I wish I had this thought when my kids were young. Helping others has so many wonderful places in our lives. I just ran into a man and his wife, a chiropractor and …
Natalie has a point here, but I would submit that it’s really both, rather than one or the other. “Ignorant yokels” (to use her phrase) are the targets of Big Oil’s propaganda machine. Educated people who respect and understand science …
In the video here, Ronald Reagan makes the point that Democrats think that every Republican elected to the White House is sure to bring disaster to the country. Actually, even in the case of Reagan himself, most progressives don’t think …
In response to the meme at left, it’s not “miserable” that these people believe what they do. Many of history’s most revered intellectuals have commented that intelligent people are far less capable of happiness than the common idiot. Check out …
