My next dog will likely be a Dogo Argentino. Half dog and half lion, this breed is extremely loyal and courageous. When it attacks, its aim is to kill and it won’t stop until it does. It feels no pain and never retreats out of fear. It will keep attacking…
Riddle me this. It’s physical. It is not made by the earth, but from stars exploding. It cannot be created or deleted, printed or digitized. It does not rust or tarnish. It cannot be cancelled. It’s reflective and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. It is precious in all…
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold. —Leo Tolstoy Have you read War and Peace or Anna Karenina by Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy? This Russian writer, regarded as one of the greatest authors of all…
As I was scrolling through news, it occurred to me that “reading between the lines” and connecting information is an uncommon skill in today’s American society. People are too busy projecting their own turpitudes on adversaries and spewing out diktats like bullets. Or they are just quiet, because they think…
Don’t get too excited, but I’m writing a book. This is the reason for the long delay between Part 1 and Part 2 of this post. As Ben Franklin put it, either I’m trying to write something worth reading or I’m doing something worth writing—the story of my life. If…
While TV medical experts were swiftly being replaced with TV military experts (and my son was playing wargames on his computer for fun), I got to thinking about this construct of war. I started reading about America’s many wars with the intention of better understanding why they happen, and why…
It was Carl Sagan who said, “You have to know the past to understand the present.” So here’s a blast from the past that is sure to wake you up to the present saga of politicians and where the world is heading. Wow! Just wow! Voilà… President Obama’s speech after…
What does the United States, Germany, the IMF, Italy, France, the Russian Federation, China, Switzerland, Japan, India, The Netherlands, Turkey, the ECB, Taiwan, Kazakhstan, Portugal, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom, Lebanon, Spain, Austria, Poland, Belgium, the Philippines, Algeria, Venezuela, Thailand, Singapore, Sweden, South Africa, Mexico, Libya, Greece, Korea, Romania,…
I like simple words and ideas. If you ask me what’s wrong with the world, I’ll tell you it’s greed. If you ask me why the whole world has gone mad, I’ll tell you it’s the greedy people behind the crooked financial system behind the fake economy. Any financial system…
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