shortened attention spa In a recently-released study by the LLL Institute (low level learning) it was determined that people in general cannot maintain focus on a monologue which lasts longer than 30 minutes. According to senior fellow Douglas Martens, it was determined that after only ten minutes of his informative dissertations on any topic, listeners …
modern day nomads?
perhaps we shall all become nomadic again? While it is true that there has always been a gap between the privileged and the less so, the time has come to recognize that our present system of central banks printing debt from thin air and charging interest on it with no possible means of repayment of …
what mortals these fools be…
not my meme but ain't it great? The billionaire/trillionaire class is hyper-fixated on NUMBers, to the point where all they can see is the price of the shares they hold, while the vAluEs of the underlying companies are small beans to them! Firing crucial employees, buying back shares to raise the per share price, cheapening …
my paincation (re_print)
View Post I took the boys a skiin' Twas a Christmas gift ya see? Twas all about the childern And not so much for me. And all was goin' a proper On all our trial runs, The wind, the snow a swishin' We was goin' great big guns. And then they stops the chairlift, Begins …
a hot old investment
hot hot hot old investment! and off to town we go... -- Hot Old “Investment”... Could there be any correlation between the fact that banks pay skimpy interest when our money's deposited with them ,while charging heavily when it's borrowed from them, and the enormous profits banks typically report? Of course there is! …
statesmanship
The 2010's have been an extremely interesting decade have they not? "The beatings will continue until morale improves" Russia, with its enormous power over American presidential elections, even being allowed to take out an ad on fb for goodness sake, has been able to shift political global dominance to herself. No, just kidding, that …
we are all equal equal
Everyone is exactly the same same I recently came upon this glittering gem: "race is just the amount of melanin in the skin. There is nothing different about these people. White people do it too. We're all equal. Ok done with the Lieberal talking points" The writer is right of course and these are the …
weatherin’ the weather
My family made the move back to the north in 1998. It was fall when we arrived. The winter snows began to fall in September, just as they did in my earlier treks to the north in the early 1980's. Because my work inevitably takes me out on the land, and this is totally …
a tale of 2 economies
A tale of 2 economies scarcity, not abundance is what makes a thing valuable... A puzzling thing is happening all over our little blue golf ball these days. It's as if reality has been replaced by fantasy. Or as some clever dude/dudette once stated, "reality is just an escape for those who can not face …
how to make the perfect decision
You can't. So now that we have that out of the way, there's nowhere to go but up! Someone who knows me is going to laugh, but I am actually a perfectionist. And perfectionists are the worst decision-makers on the planet. Every time we get near to thinking "that's what I'm gonna do!" another consideration …
