All this is true, but sadly, these people occupy important positions in our government, and their decisions have disastrous effects on many millions of people, and, at a certain level, everyone on Earth. Their actions make the planet a more …
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The U.S. Is Home to a Rarified World of High Quality Goods and Services
I learned during a Zoom meeting yesterday that the acceptance rate at Ivy League schools is now 3 – 5% (i.e., the rejection rate is as high as 97%). When you subtract out those who are admitted merely because their …
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Some Americans Don’t Think Too Clearly
Televangelist Pat Robertson makes a somewhat controversial statement here, doesn’t he? This is the level of thinking going on here in the good ol’ USA.
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Predictions Are Hard To Make–Especially About the Future
Here’s a reminder that predicting the future is impossible. That huge mainframe computer was the state of the art in IT just 70 years ago. What the fellow is saying turns out to be perfectly true, but the point here …
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What Makes People Kind?
I found the meme here interesting, but I disagree. Speaking for myself, I think most people who know me would say that I’m a kind person, but it’s not because I’ve been wronged; in fact, I can count on the …
We Make Our Tomorrows
It’s easy for us to forget that we are all participants in a society that is constantly morphing, for better or for worse. As individuals, we create the civilization in which we and our desendants will live. Take a long …
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There Is Value in Traditional Education, But Not Everyone Sees It That Way
It’s interesting how many of the world’s great minds regard traditional education as “mental programming” or “forced conformity.” Could you or I have come to the knowledge we now have by teaching ourselves to read, and then going through books …
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Jefferson on Aristocracy
Happy 278th birthday to Thomas Jefferson, principal author of the Declaration of Independence. As part of his role as a Founding Father, Jefferson noted: “There is also an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents… …
More on Political Correctness
In response to this discussion of political correctness, blogger/novelist Steve Vachss writes: Hi Craig, You make excellent points. There are, however, a few different kinds of PC language. Some are insulting putdowns simply intended to intimidate someone who has erred …
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Political Correctness and Cancel-Culture
An old friend and business associate, Steve Vachss, is now a blogger and novelist. His current piece on political correctness and cancel-culture includes: Professional surveys indicate that 60 to 80 percent of Americans reject PC language or cancel-culture. Most people …
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