When we debate taxation, there are questions I never hear asked… and today I will ask them.
Warren Buffet points out an injustice in our tax law that allows him to pay as much as 22% less in federal income taxes than the middle class. He pays 17.7% while some of his employees pay 39.7%.
Obviously unfair, […]

This is a true story you can use to stress the importance of education to your children.
When I was 19 I worked for a seafood restaurant as a prep cook, but specifically, I sliced and hand peeled thousands of individual shrimp 12-14 hours a day, six days a week.
We were a bunch of 18-30 year-old […]

Nickel and diming yourself out of financial trouble rarely works. You need to invest the resources you have into the right things. I’ve worked for companies that nickel and dimed themselves out of greatness when they should have focused on their strengths and cut their weaknesses. Don’t drown because you refuse to let go of […]

In February I wrote post about how my 4-year-old son was becoming obsessed with video games, asking the question – Are Video Games Bad for Kids?
After 4 months of observation, let me give the positive and negative aspects of allowing him to play video games with few limits:
Positive:

Improved eye hand coordination – It also appeared […]

Michael Haislip debunks 5 blogging myths. I’m not sure I agree with everything he says, but I love his strong voice and he makes some valid points.
Scott Adams gives powerful simple advice at the Dilbert Blog – The Day you Became a Better Writer.
This is the best article on children losing the freedom to explore […]

Reading The Total Perspective Vortex by Christopher S. Putnam at Damn Interesting produced some insights into life and the personal development industry as a whole.
The basic premise of the article is that people who are “Mentally Disordered” may actually be more grounded than those that are “Normal.”
Psychologists Shelly Taylor and Jonathon Brown state that the […]

Paul Tough wrote a phenomenal article for the New York Times magazine in which he tells the story of Ruby Payne who harnessed the Law of Attraction to start a multi-million dollar business, change her life, and fight poverty.
By accident, over thirty years ago, she discovered vast differences in the way poor, middle class, and […]

As the mainstream media fuels class envy and schadenfreude in the proletariat over Miss Hilton’s hysterics, I have yet to hear anyone point out what a foolish waste jail sentences are for petty crime. They do little to ‘correct’ people, do little to protect the public safety, are expensive, inefficient, and unnecessary due to technological […]

Psychology Today has the best article of the year. Robert Epstein is interviewed about how adolescence is an artificial creation of the industrial age, and that human beings reach adulthood shortly after puberty. I agree with him, and I will take it one step further… our society creates troubled youngsters and then blames them for […]

In his 10,000 Fists to Freedom post Aaron Potts challenges us all to make a 90 day commitment to achieving a goal. Not some ‘mamby pamby crap’, but something difficult, like losing 30-40 lbs. or gaining financial freedom.
His post got me thinking about what I have and what I want. And I discovered I have […]