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“Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions,” by Zachary Shore. Shore is a professor of national security affairs at the Naval Postgraduate
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“Pregnant with myself.” Now that’s an evocative phrase. Ran across it in Jane Fonda’s 2005 autobiography (“My Life So Far,” Random House)
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(A Populist Capitalist Blog) The current economic crisis is the result of a massive failure of morality and regulation, not a blanket
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A recent New York Times article (see below) dealt with college students’ expectations that they should be rewarded with grades based upon
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“The meaning of any message is the response you receive.” Huh? What does that mean? “The meaning of any message is the
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More than 45 years ago(!), I spent a summer traveling America on a 1969 BMW R-50 touring motorcycle. R-50 stood for 500
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Who would have thought it? We live in such a complex world, every choice has ramifications. That soft, smooth toilet paper we
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(A Populist Capitalist Civil Liberties Blog) George Orwell was right about the growth of totalitarianism and the love of government for surveillance
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“Son, you be sure to set your goals so high that you can’t possibly accomplish them in one lifetime. That way
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Racquetball has been my exercise passion ever since I took it up in my early twenties on concrete three-wall courts on the
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One of the most fun things about life is learning. Many people choose to take active advantage of the myriad learning opportunities
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The headline you will never see “is ‘The market was down 110 points, a random fluctuation in a very complex system.’” (Eric