Admit it. We are all a little greedy. Some more than others. — Like every other species on the planet, our genetics are the product of multiple decision tree branches displaying the successful continuation and increase of life. These successful gambits involve acquiring nutrients, finding a livable environment, and propagation. For modern humans that typically means a job for buying food and shelter…

You can’t blame them because it’s human nature — I’ve seen articles claiming climate scientists are shocked at how rapidly the climate is manifesting extreme events that take lives and destroy property. When I read these I think Are they naive or mental? Are they actually climate scientists? Here is why I’m so doubtful about any climate scientists claims…

We risk losing our sense of the outrageous — Outrage that presidential choices will be a doddering corporate party liner or an illogically charismatic pathologically liar. Outrage that gun lobbyists hold a nation hostage through a sycophantic (or is it psychophantic?) Republican Party, a political organization that has more in common with Mexican cartels than an American political party…

The acetaminophen added to hydrocodone is to warn drug abusers not to take the drug, but it is killing them instead — America’s Protestant churches started a temperance movement in the 1820s that gained momentum in the early 1900s. It began with the suggestion of moderation. This led to urging people to resist the temptation to drink in the quest for complete abstinence. Ultimately, there was a call for the banning of…

Capitalism is in runaway mode and must be curtailed. Perhaps ‘quiet quitting’ doesn’t go far enough — Here is the title to an article I recently saw on Yahoo. “Ford targets quiet quitters with new policy that could see underachievers lose their severance.” Companies are in a complete froth about a media-hyped attitude towards work called “quiet quitting.” Quiet quitters say they are going to work the…

It didn’t go well, but the reason is something you would not suspect — Just sixty years ago people left their doors unlocked without worry. There was a time when people kept rifles on a rack in the back window of their pickup trucks — shotguns, hunting rifles, and even semi-automatic rifles (they’ve been around since 1905). They would leave their windows down because…

The future is not for the faint of heart — or the poor — The term “climate change” is anemic on purpose to allay fears of the general public and diminish its significance. Who pays for the climate change that has become a climate catastrophe? The poor and middle class bear the brunt of physical damage, financial burden, and social hardship of climate catastrophe…

Not a gun show event, a gun buyback event — Had this old gun my stepdad gave me when he passed. The wife and I are moving from Houston to Waco and getting rid of stuff. The gun became an object of ambivalence. After some internet investigation I determined the Colt .38 was actually made in Belgium from inferior steel…

CEOs may actually be an alien invasion Nearly forty percent of American workers are bound by noncompete agreements. They cannot leave their current jobs and go to a similar job elsewhere. Franchises impose yet another restriction. Their employees cannot even move to another location in the same franchise. …