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, I needed a restroom. I was on a busy street, but it was early in the morning and
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...
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...
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...
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...
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013
When I was about four years old, my parents gave me a toy piano. Up until that moment, I had been able to figure out just about anything, but it soon became quite clear to me that...
Monday, July 1st, 2013
373,000 people ride BART (Bay Area Rapid Transit) every day, but not today. People who live in the East Bay and work in San Francisco are especially hit hard, as they have to choose between swimming six...
Saturday, June 22nd, 2013
Did Martians invade? Was there a big storm that wiped out all the crops? Was the final drop of gasoline finally consumed bringing 99% of travel to a standstill? Just what was the big disaster that caused...
Friday, April 19th, 2013
Within minutes of the tragedy at the Boston Marathon, political hacks were openly hoping for an outcome that would support their agenda. On CNN, MSNBC, BBC, NPR etc. the message was clear, “We want to blame it...
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...