I’m far from a genius. In fact, I think I have a rather pedestrian mind. But I also think I’ve stumbled upon some profound insights in the course of writing this blog. And when one of those profound insights is confirmed by a famous blogger, which happened last week, I can’t resist the all-too-human urge …
This post was last modified on 8/16/2019 because Steverark pointed out a glaring deficiency in my MRI-RI Calculator that couldn’t be ignored. I neglected to account for inflation. Someone who is spending $40,000 annually today will be spending a lot more than that 20 or 30 years hence. Over the next couple of days, I …
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To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, “List posts are the last refuge of an uninspired blogger.” Well, for this week anyway, I’m extremely uninspired and all I could muster was this utterly pedestrian list post. Enjoy—or better yet, try not to toss your cookies. Ten Reasons Why You’ll Never Be Financially Independent You Didn’t Procreate Mindfully On …
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Check out this awesome article pushing privilege envy syndrome I came across this week. According to the author of this article, there’s no way students of color in Waterbury, Connecticut can do well in school because the schools they go to are mostly majority black and such schools spend $4,000 less per pupil than neighboring …
Anyone familiar with this blog knows that I detest the Progressive definition of privilege. In a post that dare not speak its name, I challenged the notion that privilege equates to any unearned advantage a person comes to possess. To me, privilege is when someone lawfully gets preferential treatment at the expense of someone else’s …
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