Thursday, November 7th, 2013
Think about it. Our brains are fabulous tools, the thing that makes us human, but our brains also hold us back, from being all we can be. Sometimes we are fooled, and sometimes we fool ourselves. We are seemingly pre-programmed to make certain kinds of mistakes, over and over again. Here are six of the
Sunday, November 3rd, 2013
As humans live longer, more animal species are going extinct. This was the conclusion of a University of California study, which wrote that human life expectancy was the determining factor for endangered birds and mammals. Though this...
Monday, October 28th, 2013
There’s a video making the rounds on Facebook and YouTube that seems to be making quite an impression on people. Unfortunately, it is so filled with false assumptions that the impression it makes is not only wrong,...
Tuesday, October 22nd, 2013
Saul retired to Phuket, Thailand from New York City at the age of 40. He already had under his belt a master’s degree in Business Administration from New York University, three years of therapy with a strict...
Monday, September 30th, 2013
“Breaking rocks in the hot sun. I fought the law and the law won.” That’s how the song goes. And many men find themselves working for nothing, by ignoring the law. But most had no idea “what”...
Thursday, September 19th, 2013
In my work, I sometimes rub elbows with the rich and powerful. Not long ago, I was doing some work for a multinational corporation based in Mexico and discovered something that perplexed me. The founder of this...
Wednesday, September 18th, 2013
Khun Anuphan, a 76-year-old Muslim fisherman from Rawai, sold a piece of ancestral land to developers for ten million dollars. He and his son, who brokered the deal, took the papers to his wife, Noina, for her...
Sunday, September 15th, 2013
Arctic Sea Ice levels were at record lows last summer. Global Warming alarmists and the mainstream media were quick to publicize the decrease. Numerous people spread the story on Facebook to declare their concern. “Scary,” they wrote....
Thursday, September 12th, 2013
12 years ago yesterday, the so called “War on Terror” began. But what it is called, and what it “is” are not the same thing. Terrorism is of course despicable. But I have a hard time seeing...
Saturday, August 24th, 2013
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered by many to be the greatest American President of the 20th century. His four terms as chief executive changed the course of government as we know it, and the direction of world...
Friday, August 23rd, 2013
“As a first step, I would see to it that things are called by their right names.” That was what Confucius said would be his first act if he were to govern a just society. He further...
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....
Friday, August 16th, 2013
When George Ayittey saw rock star Bono in the audience at a conference, he made a special effort to rip into the foreign aid establishment. Bono later told Ayittey that he liked his speech but did not...
Wednesday, August 14th, 2013
Over the past 20 years I’ve bought two cars for my personal transportation. In 1994 I bought a 1-year old Toyota pickup for $10,000. I paid cash. That same year, a friend of mine bought a brand...
Friday, August 9th, 2013
The antidote to Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth, this film from the BBC ought to be mandatory viewing to those who are force fed the scare story of a global apocalypse driven by CO2. Highly critical of the...
