There is something seriously wrong with the way our crazy culture incentivizes people who can and should be doing meaningful work to stay out of the workforce, milk the system, and do incredibly dumb stuff that makes them internet sensations and megabucks. In some cases, evil, criminal stuff. Machelle Hackney[…] Read On
Monthly Archives: March 2019
5 Common Sense Rules for a Healthy Diet
Search all you want, you’ll never find a more fact-free topic than diet. Trendy fads abound, not to mention countless myths about gluten, lactose, cholesterol, carbs, protein and going vegetarian or vegan. The science constantly flip-flops. Saturated fat used to be the demon, now it’s sugar. Eggs were on, then[…] Read On
The Trouble With Too Many Choices
The only way to impact the world around you and change the outcome of your life is by the choices you make. Everything else is out of your control. So what happens when there are too many choices? What then? I hear this from young people all the time. The[…] Read On
The Trouble with ‘Equality’
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. – U.S. Declaration of Independence Today’s culture chronically misinterprets the meaning of ‘equality.’ In a capitalist society there is no equality – just[…] Read On
The AOC Crazy Train Leaves Utopia, Arrives in Cluelessville
You know it galls me to see grandstanding politicians like Maxine “We Have God on Our Side” Waters and her capitalism-hating cronies grill CEOs on Capitol Hill. Maybe nauseates is a better word. Say what you will about some of the scandals that have befallen Wells Fargo in recent years,[…] Read On
Thoughts on the College Admissions Scandal Rocking the Nation
This is what we’ve come to. The massive college admissions scandal rocking the nation is like a filthy, slimy window into the dark side of our entitled culture. Dozens — before the dust settles maybe hundreds — of rich, coddling parents bribing their precious snowflakes’ way into elite schools like[…] Read On
Big Tech: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do
Elizabeth Warren wants to break up Big Tech. She says that Amazon, Facebook, Alphabet/Google and Apple are too dominant and that breaking them up will spur competition. U.S. antitrust law doesn’t support her thesis but when has that ever stopped a political power grab? There are no federal laws that[…] Read On