Men on top? Women on top? What’s up with work, marriage, love and sex?
Keeping it up at both ends is not easy when you both work and it's damn near impossible when there are kids. Who wrote the book of love? Well there's a bunch of Read more...
Third world nations – right here in America!
Gun violence in American cities exceeds the rates in third-world countries Map compares gun murder rates of American cities versus third world nations. And it ain't pretty. Most large cities have higher murder rates Read more...
Climate change denial is a dangerous, undocumented alien among us
Unfounded propaganda is creating a man-made "bozozone" that is denying us any chance of doing what is right. Three things you might not know: More than six in 10 Americans are represented by elected officials who Read more...
Hey grown ups, move over … get out of our way!
On average, each kid donates between $5 - $10 and that generates $30 million to help other kids. Wow! We the children are doing what many of you adult couch-potatoes should be doing Read more...
It’s a wonderful wired world for marketing––or scary as hell!
David Ogilvy and Bill Bernbach could never have imagined that "word-of-mouth" advertising meant this. (photo: blognaver) If you're not wired up, you might want to stick to shopping, not selling Sheryl Sandberg, Read more...
Dumb and Dumber – no, it’s not a movie; it’s reality
Socrates, Plato, Lucretius would not have allowed Einstein to pass out of the fifth grade. (vk.com) We humans are dumber than we were 1000 years ago Are we devolving rather than evolving? Is Read more...
Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
I believe Francis Bacon’s three principles are the foundation of good writing. By “conference,” he means conversation and that is what the vast majority of people do the most; it’s unique to humans. But where we truly find discovery and advancement is by expanding beyond our ability to converse and developing the other two capabilities we possess: reading and writing. Amassing knowledge and having the ability to articulate it in a permanent form – for millions across history – is a wondrous gift that we humans can give to others with whom we share the planet.