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Life is Absurd
Doug got hired right after I did this year, and within a month of being hired, was in the hospital with a heart attack, or a bad liver or something screwed up on the inside. Nice guy - I remember him from class. Chicago, tall, older kids like me. See his name on emails every...
Wrong!
I thought by the time I was this age I would finally have it all figured out. By "it" I mean "Life". "How to do it." The "Big Questions" finally answered. But no. I thought that by this age: I'd be financially set. Wrong! I'd still be married. Wrong! I'd have lots of really...
How Should We Read “The Revelation of St. John”?
A buddy and I were discussing the sorry state of the world, and he mentioned that he's pretty pessimistic about the future of our species. I asked him the reason for his pessimism, and he replied, "The Book of Revelation". He then asked me what I thought, and this is what I...
When is the best time to buy gold?
For those of you asking yourselves, "should I buy gold", the answer is pretty simple - YES. For those of you wondering, "should I buy gold now that it is over $1900, or should I wait?", the answer is - THAT DEPENDS. Gold continues to push higher because of fundamentals - it is...
A Modest Proposal
From the very beginning of the financial crisis, the source of the problem has been evident: big banks committed systemic fraud to cover up their stupid business decisions, and made stupid business decisions to cover up their systemic fraud. (That puts the phrase "circle jerk"...
Quote Unquote
If you want to make a lot of money, pitch God to fundamentalists and don’t try to write good books. Instead, try to write books that [fundamentalists] are going to like. And those two things don’t go together. Frank Schaeffer in his interview with Kirkus Review of Books.