Visiting with friends over the Christmas holidays an engaged woman stroked her beau’s beard and asked “Where does the hair end and the beard begin?” All it takes for me is a good title. I wrote it down. The following flash story has nothing to do with that holiday visit except the question. Turns out that bias can be …
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GUEST POST from Don – It Doesn’t Hurt
IT DOESN’T HURT RICH PEOPLE. Exactly how does it hurt you if someone else has a billion dollar income? That person isn’t taking YOUR money away from you. If that person suddenly went bankrupt it wouldn’t help you one little bit. Here’s where it helps you a lot: That person pays more in taxes every year than you will …
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GUEST POST from Don – Buying A Job
BUYING A JOB When jobs are not plentiful (that could be any time, really) people imagine that they could turn a hobby into a business. Some try to land several jobs at the same time (and with work at home programs, some are successful at doing more than one job at the same time … I …
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GUEST POST from Don – June 4, 1937
June 4, 1937 SHOPPING CARTS. 1937 was when the first shopping cart was introduced. Before that shopping was limited to what a person could carry. They still haven’t perfected the shopping cart. So what makes you think you are going to buy the perfect smartphone or automobile? What makes you think the NEXT tattoo will be perfect? NOPE! Unfortunately, …
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GUEST POST from Don – My Retirement Plan
MY RETIREMENT PLAN A quote from a retirement money expert: “”We’ve learned that people make many mistakes, and particularly, sadly, less educated and poorer people tend to make worse mistakes.” I was on a site today that allows comments and I was shocked how many commenters got Social Security facts wrong. Its no wonder, Social Security is a …
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GUEST POST from Don – Bring It Back
BRING IT BACK Some might think I’m a Luddite. Nope. I’m logical and realistic. To prove it I will list several things which were far better or cheaper before modern tech. For instance, phones worked incredibly well before cell towers. Pick up the receiver and dial a number and it worked. No swiping a pattern, no facial recognition or thumbprint …
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SPECIAL GUEST POST from DON – WHY THE SHEPHERDS
WHY THE SHEPHERDS?A Christmas Monologue We talked among ourselves. Good News! Indeed this was the greatest of all news. We met an angel. We saw the baby. We found the solution to everything. One or two thought the baby born would be king, but that is nonsense. Kings are not born in stables, are they? Further, if anyone was to be king …
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GUEST POST from Don – Intentional Errors
INTENTIONAL ERRORS 1. Nature has this headline: “Five years of COVID vaccines: how a breakthrough created a public-health crisis.” Unfortunately, they misidentified the issue on purpose. They say that the “messaging” about the COVID vaccine caused some people to move away from vaccines altogether. The article claims that those who had the most accurate data should have been …
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GUEST POST from Don – When You Are An Adult
WHEN YOU ARE AN ADULT “WHEN DO YOU STOP BEING A GIRL, AND WHO GETS TO DECIDE?” – Headline from “The Face.” The article topic is really about film making. OK. But it raises a significant issue for America. When does a boy or girl become a man or woman? In one state you can’t be left alone at …
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GUEST POST from Don – Pesticide Exposure
PESTICIDE EXPOSURE What is the OPPOSITE of pesticide exposure? Toxic insect exposure. More children died in the 1800s from insect infestations in foods than died in the 1900s from pesticide exposures from farm foods. Insect feces, eggs, crop disease from burrowing insect larvae, etc., created a food nightmare in the 1800s. No one ate an apple in the dark. No …
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