Are you serious? Why do you think we’re destroying the Amazon rainforest, other than to make more room for beef cattle? We’re wrecking our planet to make McDonald’s rich beyond belief. The only larger contributor to environmental collapse is the …
Category: Sustainability
Thrift Stores
I love supporting the thrift store economy, in both donations and purchases. I had six suits and about 80 ties at one point; now I have one suit and perhaps four ties. Somewhere around here, there are people who now …
Ayn Rand Was Once “A Thing”
Growing up in the 60s and early 70s, I was one of millions of young people who read Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged and found them both extremely well-written and philosophically compelling. But then, as we aged, virtually …
Tagged with: Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, privatization of airport security, privatization of disaster response, privatization of environmental control, privatization of infrastructure, privatization of law enforcement, privatization of national defense, socialism, the real differences between the United States and most of Europe is government-funded healthcare and education, we have certain duties and responsibilities to one another, we have individual rights
Rabid Consumerism
There have been many attempts to inform our society that consumerism is a choice, but so is a more minimalist lifestyle. “The Story of Stuff,” founded by environmentalist Annie Leonard, is perhaps the best example. I once met Annie at …
The United States Is Going to “Run” Venezuela
Pete Buttigieg, always on point, brings clarity to the matter. At home, we have tax cuts for billionaires while children starve, stagnant wages for the working class, homeless veterans, the National Guard in our streets in an effort to solve …
Tagged with: homeless veterans, Pete Buttigieg, stagnant wages for the working class, tax cuts for billionaires while children starve, the abdication of our duty to prevent environmental collapse, the catastrophic decline in our educational system, the most disgusting display imaginable of corruption and other forms of criminality in the Trump administration, the National Guard in our streets in an effort to solve a problem that doesn't actually exist
Wise Words from a Woman of Intelligence and Compassion
The words at left come from an old college friend who had a stratospheric career in law, especially as it applies to the workplace, and went onto to teach, coach, mentor, and author books on the subject.
Marketing Bad Luck
We’ve all had bad luck. Here’s an example from my life as a marketing consultant to large tech companies, including IBM and Hewlett-Packard. I had just flown into Phoenix from Boston, landing in the late evening and getting a taxi …
Stopping Animal Abuse in New York City
Good going. Should have happened a century ago.
Morals and Honesty Used to Matter
At left is a reminder that there was once a time when morals mattered. How do you think voters at the turn of the 20th Century would have responded to Trump as a U.S. presidential candidate?
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On Stupidity
The ancient (pre-Socratic) Greek philosopher Heraclitus is most remembered for having written, “Change is the only constant,” or alternatively translated, “Nothing endures but change.” He wrote, “Into the same rivers we both do and do not step,” meaning that the …
