Monday, August 19th, 2013
I didn’t plan to get in a fight. I didn’t go looking for trouble either, but somehow trouble seems to find me. Well, that’s not exactly true, maybe I was looking for it just a little bit. Here’s how it happened… The sun was blazing on the third day of my tour of Angkor Wat.
Sunday, August 11th, 2013
1,810 people renounced their US citizenship in the first half of 2013. That’s SIX times as many people who renounced their citizenship in the same time period the previous year. The trend is unmistakable. More and more...
Thursday, August 8th, 2013
I’m going to burn my house down. Then I’m going to push my car off a cliff. And then for a finale, I’m going to throw my television into the ocean. Besides being a tremendous amount of...
Monday, August 5th, 2013
The Sooner State is leading the pack is the quest to make healthcare simpler and less expensive. Not content to wait for directions from above, Dr. Kevin Smith and Dr. Steve Lantier started a surgery center based...
Wednesday, July 31st, 2013
Despised by some, deified by others, Ayn Rand is mostly known for her overly thick novels: The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. She also wrote a book outlining her philosophy called, The Virtue of Selfishness. It has provided...
Tuesday, July 30th, 2013
When I was a kid, my friends and I built a tree fort in the woods out behind the last suburb of town. On the front door we hung a sign that said, “No girls allowed.” Why...
Sunday, July 28th, 2013
The great thing about science is that it is true for everyone. The terrible thing is that it’s not always true right away. One-year science says avocados are bad for you, and the next year science says...
Thursday, July 25th, 2013
Why can’t healthcare be inexpensive, high quality, and readily available? That is what everyone wants right? So why not? In my travels, I’ve discovered a few answers. One day I was walking around Bangkok, Thailand, when suddenly,...
Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013
Evansdale playground had a brand new slide that went round and round like a corkscrew. It was so cool. I was standing at the top, and I could hardly wait for my turn I was so excited....
Thursday, July 18th, 2013
Why do people lie? I never thought about it much, but this past week I was put to the test. I forced myself to bite my tongue and not speak what I believed to be true. There...
Wednesday, July 17th, 2013
In the never-ending quest to make things affordable, I’ve decided to ‘go big’ and get a free Ferrari. I wouldn’t want to be called greedy, so therefore there will be free Ferraris for everyone. I suspect that...
Tuesday, July 16th, 2013
Rest easy citizen, Ohio Attorney General Mike Dewine is here to protect you from the evils of coffee (cups). Apparently there is not enough crime in Ohio to keep Dewine busy, so instead he has invested his...
Monday, July 15th, 2013
Niels Finsen was 20 years old when the doctors told him that the lumps in his testes were metastatic. After a year of painful treatments, they said that it was hopeless; Niels had only six more months...
Sunday, July 14th, 2013
In a 1981 trial in Mobile, Alabama, a jury of his peers found Josephus Andersonan innocent of murdering a policeman. Ku Klux Klansman Benny Hays disagreed with the verdict. In a meeting held shortly after the trial...
Saturday, July 13th, 2013
Sum Ting Wong? Yes…
In medieval times the court jester was there to say things that no one else would dare. To point out truths, lurking right before the eyes. And so it was yesterday, when someone played an ill-timed prank...