In pure capitalism, the rich get richer because “it takes money to make money.” They buy stocks and bonds, expand factories and charge the lower class more and more for basic necessities simply because they can. “It’s just business.” On the other hand, the poor live paycheck to paycheck, and if the price of bread […]
Read More →The average I.Q. is 100, which means 50 percent of Americans have an I.Q. of 99 or below. That’s not an insult to half the U.S. population – the I.Q. test creators decided that 100 would be the mean number for average intelligence. Where are these not-so-smart people, we ask. Where do they hide? And […]
Read More →This article originally appeared in The Orlando Sentinel, Dec. 21, 2015 A new employee shows up at work wearing a headscarf, which shows only eyes, but no one goes out of his or her way to greet her. She has a life different than our own and worships in ways we don’t understand. Plus, it’s […]
Read More →Technology is destroying America, but it’s not the self-driving cars, loss of privacy or generation of young people buried in cell phones. It’s Facebook. Twenty years ago, the U.S. had skinheads and radicals on both the left and right. But 20 years ago, the radicals couldn’t find each other – their circle of crazies was […]
Read More →In a go-go-go world created by 140-word Tweets and attention spans that evaporate in 33 seconds, Americans push hard to “get to the point.” It’s a fine attitude for a few issues, such as … well, none come to mind, but there are a few. Issues – and the people who have an opinion about […]
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