I was searching for something to watch on a recent rainy weekend. I found the 2011 – 2014 film trilogy based on Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged on Amazon Prime. It has been at least 15 years since I read Atlas Shrugged and remember it being a brutal read. At over 1,000 pages filled mostly with…
Continue ReadingWhat is the Biggest Threat to Education?
Is the sum total of all the wealth in the world a fixed number that just gets moved around from person to person, group to group, or is wealth dynamic (created)? This is a question I asked a group of college freshmen and sophomores in an entry level business school course. A slim majority of…
Continue ReadingWhat is the Biggest Threat to Democracy?
Donald Trump was back in the news this week. Well, what week is he not in the news? All the media outlets know that he’s such a polarizing figure he always leads to ratings. CNN hosted a town hall featuring Trump that ignited his base as well as his enemies. The tweets were flying from…
Continue ReadingIs Being Over- or Under-represented a Bad Thing?
On March 8, 2023, Nicholas Wade was called to testify before a congressional subcommittee regarding the possible origins of COVID-19. Wade was a science and health editor at The New York Times for over 20 years prior to his departure in 2011. He published a controversial book in 2014 called An Inconvenient Inheritance in which…
Continue ReadingSome Thoughts on Bud Light
I’m not a huge beer drinker – I actually prefer distilled spirits – but when I do drink beer, I often drink Bud Light. It’s an easy beer to drink while golfing or grilling or meeting some friends after work. Unless you’ve been on a different planet for the past month, you’re aware that Bud…
Continue ReadingLogic and Transgenderism
On March 27, Audrey Hale forced her way into a Nashville private school and killed six people – three children, three adults. What makes this school shooting a bit different than other tragedies is that we found out that Audrey, though born female, identified as male and had begun using the moniker “Aiden.” Mass shootings…
Continue ReadingA Fresh Look at MicroAggressions
Microaggression (n) indirect, subtle, or unintentional discrimination against members of a marginalized group. Vito Perrone had a job offer on the table to return to Easthampton Schools in Massachusetts. Unfortunately for Vito, he addressed the board chair and executive assistant as “ladies” in a follow-up email, prompting the board to rescind the offer. The reason…
Continue ReadingThe United Methodist Church Schism
I am not a methodist. I don’t have a dog in the current fight going on within what has been one of the larger protestant denominations in the U.S. since its formation in 1968. At that time it boasted 42,000 churches and 11 million members. By 2020 its numbers were down to over 30,000 churches…
Continue ReadingReligious Hysteria in the 21st Century? (Part 2)
I have recently re-read both Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari and God: A Human History by Reza Aslan. Each provides a fantastic overview of how religion and spirituality were an important part of human existence from the very beginning. Some of the earliest known human artwork includes abstract images that…
Continue ReadingThe Death of Dilbert
I’ve been a fan of the Dilbert comic strip since the early 1990s. His satire about life in an office was hilarious and was the basis for many corporate training activities as organizations attempted to NOT be like the workplace in the strip. Scott Adams got it! He built a financial empire on the characters…
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