It’s said that there are two different groups of people that constitute human civilization: Those who care about all the issues that affect other people, simply because of their basic human compassion and empathy, and Those who begin to care …
Category: Sustainability
Mental Poverty Is Worse Than Economic
Yesterday, I spent a few hours with an old high school chum I hadn’t seen in 50 years. I recalled him as a fairly uninspired student, and he’d be the first to admit I was right. But we happened to …
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Did “Wokeness” Kill Country Music?
Prager “University” is not a learning institution, but a conservative advocacy group. The meme here makes a very typical, provocative claim. An alternative viewpoint is that any aspect of life in a civilized society that is “killed” by empathy, compassion, …
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Celebrating Biodiversity
We sometimes forget that some people spend their entire lives helping this planet maintain its diverse ecosystems. This guy takes care of endangered mountain gorillas. Good going.
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When Rule of Law Disappears, So Does the Nation
During our trip to Mexico, my wife and I were the victims of one of their infamous police “shake-downs,” where those driving cars with U.S. license plates are pulled over, told they had run a stop sign (or committed some …
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Some Arguments for the Existence of God Are Better Than Others
In arguing about the existence of God, people have invoked a great number of different lines of reasoning. For my money, the idea that morality cannot exist without God and the threat of eternal punishment is perhaps the lamest of …
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Donate All Unwanted Items That Have Value to Others
This is funny, but it makes an important point: it’s wrong to throw away things that have value to other people. When the intensity of my business career vanished about a decade ago, I gave away four suits, and at …
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Book Covers
Here are some useful tips about book covers. My first two books were #1 Amazon best-sellers in their respective categories, meaning that they both sold a few hundred or perhaps a thousand copies on a certain day. Needless to say, …
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Why Talent Is No Longer Required in Music
It’s (note spelling) sad indeed that talent is no longer necessary for success in the music business, but it should come as a surprise to no one that industry executives have capitalized on the degraded tastes of modern society.
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Universal Healthcare
Here’s a reminder that the United States is the only country in the developed world whose citizens routinely die of treatable disease.
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