Many readers criticized my last post with some version of this:

Steve,
In your last post you said…
“There are no bad kids.”
Yes there are.

I understand. Maybe you were victim of one of their crimes. Maybe they bullied you in school. Maybe you’ve given some kid a dozen ‘second chances’ and they still don’t ‘get it.’
I hope you […]

You may wonder why, at 38 years old, I am so passionate about youth issues. Let me tell you why…
When I was young, many people who claimed to be helping me, lied to me, abused me, marginalized me, and wrote me off as another statistic. I don’t claim to be special or unique in any […]

Have you ever felt it was your duty to suffer because others do? I have and sometimes I still do.
Have you ever thought? - Why do I deserve to be successful when I’ve made so many mistakes, done so many stupid things, hurt so many people?
Or have you thought? - I don’t deserve success because […]

As many of you know, I am not a fan of the public school system, so my children are attending a small private Montessori school. I wasn’t sure about it at first, but now that my oldest son has been in Montessori school for 3 years, I may become a Montessori evangelist. I have seen […]

I hear people talk about how the world is becoming more dangerous and unstable and that the past was somehow safer and better. This selective recollection is not accurate. Our mass media creates the hysteria and Digg and Reddit are no better. Lately, the kingpins of social media paint a picture of reality that is […]

That’s right, I’ve been banned! And it only took one day! I guess John Chow isn’t the only evil blogger.
I rarely promote any blogging fads but I thought BlogRush deserved the pub and I wanted your referral traffic. 11 of you joined BlogRush yesterday from my referral link… Thanks!
Yesterday evening my computer crashed hard and […]

You want more traffic to your blog, right? I do too. So after visiting my favorite evil doer on the net, I signed up with BlogRush. It is already going viral and could drive more traffic to your blog than a six figure marketing campaign.
Here’s how it works. Add the BlogRush Widget to your blog. […]

Are you willing to be free? That’s the problem isn’t it? Willingness. When we look to others to grant us freedom, they can’t give us what we already have. We need a willingness to free ourselves from ourselves.
I don’t even know where to begin with this guy. His blog is tremendous. If you write you […]

Do you own your own business? Is it profitable? Tell me all about it. Leave a link in the comments.
If you don’t have one now, do you plan to start one? Tell us about your plan.
This is my third installment of Weekend Reader Appreciation where I ask the readers to sound off about themselves.

Do you find it nearly impossible to get through all the crap you need to do so you can get to the stuff you want to do? Avanoo gives us the answer to this problem in the best blog post for the month of August.
Who is going to kick Google’s butt and become the next […]