Most folks like to tell anyone that will listen that they are stupendously intelligent and wonderful prognosticators… Well, with all of the recent uproar about China, I recalled that my very first blog posting 14 years ago was to call
Category: Business
Communism, Capitalism… and Money
The latest with the NBA and China has focused a bright light on the tensions between Communism and Capitalism (always remember that the true tensions are between tyranny and anarchy). It’s an interesting situation with all of the emerging American
Do Google and Yahoo Provide ‘News’?
Update We now have a Google engineer stepping forward to explain the Google has innate bias in their search engine and news feed. Hours after Google engineer Greg Coppola appeared with James O’Keefe in a Project Veritas video, he was
A Socialist Politician is a Hypocrite?!
On-line users have called Bernie Sanders a hypocrite and mercilessly mocked him after the socialist firebrand admitted that he will have to cut the hours of staffers so that he can pay them the $15 minimum wage that his campaign
Additive Manufacturing Conference in Detroit
I spent a couple of days in Detroit at the annual RAPID Additive Manufacturing Conference, where I presented a paper on one of my company’s ceramic 3D-printing technology. I stayed at the Marriott hotel at the Renaissance Center while attending
California Ignores Economic Fundamentals
An interesting evaluation and study of poverty rates around the United States places California as the worst State: So how is it that California, which has spent nearly $1 trillion on antipoverty programs, has the highest poverty rate in the
The Important Subtleties in the 10 Commandments
I have a philosophical position that believes that that the natural entropy of human nature is towards corruption. That is, left to our own devices, people manipulate and bend/break the rules in their societal situation to unduly benefit themselves (often
The Cost of Healthcare
The cost of healthcare is out of control. Update I recently read a very detailed book on the various sources of cost in the American healthcare system, “An American Sickness“, which describes all the components and players involved in delivering
What’s that Expression? Get Woke, Go Broke?
What do these events have in common? Dick’s May Close 35 Stores Across 18 States Boy Scouts of America may Declare Bankruptcy If you’re not familiar with the phrase “Get Woke”, it’s the leftist slang to mean that you’re becoming
Review of Story: The Man Who Killed the Cure
Missy and I attended the Sunday afternoon presentation of the play The Man Who Killed The Cure at the Dayton Theatre Guild. It was an entertaining 2-hour showing and we became intrigued about the real story behind the play. While