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Apr.24.2012
I have been driving South Cooper in Arlington, Texas, around 3:30-4:30 p.m. each week day for a few weeks. Which means I am passing the area of Cooper Street where day laborers assemble. In the early morning there may be from anywhere from 50-100 or so men gathered in small groups spread over a 3...
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Mar.15.2012
One of my favorite movies is Black Widow with Debra Winger and Theresa Russell about an FBI agent, who is more of a geek than a field rep, and a woman who changes her appearance to trap and marry wealthy men and then kill them without leaving a trace. Her favorite poison, I believe it was methadone...
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Feb.06.2012
A utopian paradise is possible as long as there are no people. The Shakers had it, but they all died out because sex was not an option, not even for procreation. No sex = no offspring = oblivion for the sect.
Thomas More died for his utopian beliefs, and because he wouldn't agree that King Henry...
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Dec.02.2011
Tempers are running high in San Francisco, where the powers-that-be have unleashed yet another full-on demonstration of the cluelessness of U.S. cultural policymaking. This essay is in four sections: I will first describe what has happened; then discuss the context; the response; and finally,...
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Nov.16.2011
I apologize for the time it has taken for me to post this second in a series of African experiences. Enjoy, this my second, shorter journal entry from overseas. There is much more to come!
Entry 2:
For the first time in my Africa trip, I saw a kid smile.
Several children, in fact. Traveling...
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Nov.15.2011
Follow this link to read my Forbes article on what Moneyball can teach us about the economy.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesleadershipforum/2011/11/15/moneyball-is-an-unintentional-allegory-about-todays-financial-mess/
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Nov.14.2011
America is in a mortal crisis. The country is flat broke; everybody knows it, yet nobody wants to face facts and do something about it.
If we want to salvage what little is left of what we nostalgically call “The American Dream,” we’re going to have to find a lot of money. ...
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Nov.04.2011
What are the conditions today? There is a pile of cash sitting idle with our large financial and industrial corporations. We are not creating nearly enough jobs. And with people not being able to pay their mortgages, our houses are losing value.
Do we have a workable solution to our...
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Oct.15.2011
The 99 per cent that will ‘occupy’ Wall Street today, October 15, will not be a global 99 per cent. They are probably the one per cent they are railing against for the outsiders.
The call to action by the “leaderless movement” is, on the face of it, a rare protest for they are hitting out at...
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Oct.12.2011
Economics can describe what has happened, in that case it should be called the Nobel Prize for History, but this doesn’t exist. Economics can also deal with the actual figures, but then it is more like a Nobel Prize for Mathematics.
Alfred Nobel did establish the Nobel Prize for Literature....
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