Archive for February, 2012

Absolutely correct except for the last sentence. The internet has changed nothing. Most of us still has to work for a living if anything but talk is going to get done, nothing is free but the Grace of God, whining adolescents will eventually have to leave the campus and join the rat race with the rest of the great unwashed (no matter what their age), and .... fairy tales and utopian dreams to reality generally work out the same way, slapped down by reality. But we can all More

Worship of people is not something I engage in David. Jefferson was not a great man and neither was any other man in the past or present. Do you think Jefferson was a better man than Nelson Mandela or MLK? No, they are all just men. If you are a christian you must believe that the words of Jesus are true. Remember when he said the wise words about life will become stupid. Jefferson was not a believer and is without God right now. That does not qualify him as a wise man. More

Anthony, I must disagree. At 62 years of age I have seen many noble creatures come from public office. Churchill was one, Sarah Palin and Hubert Humphrey two others. It is our job to get around the emotional intelligence in the workplace intelligence designed to persecute and accuse innocent people. Unfortunately, I believe there are tens of thousands of people in our jails whose only crime is their audacity to state their opinions. It is the responsibility of each of us More

I see stories like this every so often about the lack of clear thinking by job hunters. Stories of this ilk are no different than people wearing jeans to interviews--I personally saw that once--people of either sex showing off tattoos, lack of preparation, other forms of improper dress, and just general unprofessionalism in their looks and demeanor. I remember when I graduated from college interview questions, I read through a lengthy do's and don'ts list in a job hunting More

The mulsims are a contaminate when they move to a foreign country like Switzerland, as are any other large immigrant populations that attempt to retain their own political culture in favor of the recipient country's culture. Everyone should be as proud of the Swiss for taking this action as they are of their own country. If you take no pride in your own country and culture then you should have NO opinion. This is a common theme, and Europe has tolerated it. Any cultural More

To start with they are not printing money......large business decisions are made based on a cost of capital number that each business has....... when looking at a go-no-go decision on starting a new business a new undertaking, they do the math and have to show a better risk adjusted return than the cost of putting the money up for hte project.....the lower the cost of capital....the lower the bar that must be crossed before projects are undertaken......the lower the interest More

'Diversity' is not, and has never been, about a range of opinions and viewpoints. It is entirely a surface phenomenon - things that can be marked off on a check list: gender, skin color, religious affiliation, sexual new employee orientation, and so forth. Makes it easy to draw up a nice Benetton pie chart to show off to everyone else. 'Diversity' requires the exact opposite in one's intellectual orientation - there is an accepted position on every issue, and to deviate More

Igor, their is nothing ad hominem about my comment. You stated clearly that the purpose for marrying someone- lets assume a women. Not sure what planet you live on, but you are going to have a hard time in a first world nation finding meaning in life a woman is into your priority as a reason to get married. Not understanding the meaning of loving someone or sharing your life with someone just further clarifies in my mind that for you, its all about the sex. This clearly More

Sue, I wonder if you'd be willing to consider an article considering the longer-term impact of precociousness on the lives of prodigies. From the research that I've read, substantially all of it points out that, apart from the brief window of time in their youth where they are more accomplished than their peers of the same age (and more accomplished even than adults with adhd who are far older than they), these exceptional levels of accomplishment rarely last when they More

what about words of encouragement for a friend written in a letter to the editor of a newspaper? what about words written in the comment sections of a newspaper? what about words written in a personal blog? what about words written in a members only website? what about words written anonymously on any website? what about words written in a different language that the employer or others in power can not immediately understand? separation of the public and private takes a More