Friday, July 19th, 2013
Real truth withstands the test of time. In 1850, Frederic Bastiat laid down the Law: Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed in the first place, that caused men to make laws. What, then, is law? It
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
So many people demand respect. To my way of thinking, respect is earned. There is no such thing as disrespect. You either earn respect, or you don’t. When I see a man dressed in a Tuxedo, or...
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
It’s a miracle! The New York Times finally found a regulation it doesn’t like, when British Parliament recently passed a law aimed at “reining in Britain’s reckless tabloid newspapers.” According to the NYT, this would “do more...
Friday, July 12th, 2013
The dog days of summer are upon us, and just as every year, there are casualties. Even on cooler days, the heat built up by a blazing sun can be dangerous to our four-legged friends. Most heat-related...
Thursday, July 11th, 2013
I recently did some work for an organization called, “The Girl Effect.” As you can probably guess, it’s a program designed to help girls. There are many such programs like: Girls Inc, Girl Up, Hardy Girls, and...
Tuesday, July 9th, 2013
There’s a dangerous storm brewing in Florida. Not in the Atlantic but off the coast of Lake Monroe in the Sanford County Courthouse. Just up the freeway from DisneyWorld, George Zimmerman is on trial for the murder...
Monday, July 8th, 2013
A little while ago, I was invited to participate in a Class Action lawsuit for 13 million dollars. If successful, my share of this loot would only be a small fraction, perhaps a thousand dollars at most....
Sunday, July 7th, 2013
Air travel is generally safe, but not 100% safe. Sometimes equipment fails, sometimes the weather interferes, and sometimes humans err. In his 2009 book, Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell examined a particular type of human error in a chapter...
Saturday, July 6th, 2013
Our ancestors evolved in the sun, so it is only natural that we require sunlight to be healthy. But most people are deficient in the sunshine vitamin, vitamin D, because they have been scared sunless. For decades...
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...