I really enjoyed this speech on the subject of failure to 9th graders by Paul Tudor Jones. Check it out: Failure speech by Paul Tudor Jones
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I just watched a very moving documentary called Smile Pinki. The movie is short, only 45 minutes, and is about children with cleft palates from extremely poor places in India. The movie follows a few of them from their villages to a hospital, where thanks to the charity, Smile Train, they can have surgery for […]
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I grew up loving video games as a kid. Unfortunately, as I have gotten older I have less and less time for simple leisure and games. But every now and then I hear about an addictive game and I slip into the little kid I once was. It happened several years ago with Half Life […]
READ MOREPoor don’t just get poorer and rich don’t get richer
This is a great post from Carpe Diem showing that it is patently false that the poor get poorer and the rich get richer: A Treasury Department study of the 1996–2005 period used IRS income tax data to discern considerable mobility: more than 55% of taxpayers moved to a different income quintile. More than half […]
READ MOREA Man of Principal
This is a great video showing what a difference one man can make, especially if he is an outsider. This is very inspiring: Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy
READ MOREThe Health Care “Cost Conundrum”
I recommend this article on why health care costs are so much higher in some places of the country and yet health care outcomes aren’t any better. Here is a snippet: “Yet in 2006 Medicare expenditures (our best approximation of over-all spending patterns) in El Paso were $7,504 per enrollee—half as much as in McAllen. […]
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The New York Times profiles Brian Deese, the 31 year old in charge of dismantling GM. Brian Deese represents what I think is a big problem in th Obama administration: No one really has any business experience or has experience operating in the business world. This will come back to bite Obama, the economy and […]
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This made me laugh.
READ MOREAn Inconvenient Talk
This is a very fascinating and scary article about “The Talk” a Peak Oil proponent gives about how our world is going to change. A must read: An Inconvenient Talk
READ MOREMemorial Day Rememberance
The following is an excellent Memorial Day blog post on a true American Hero from The Hackensack Blog: Roy Benavidez Memorial Day
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