My first stint in college began over 40 years ago. From 1979 to 1984, I attended Buffalo University. During the course of those five years, I made a lot of road trips back and forth between Buffalo and my home on Long Island. And little did I know then, a lot of those road trips …
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I have a simple definition of property. Here it is: Property is anything that people can legally own and has value, whether that value is real or sentimental. Using the above definition as a guide, I believe there are four kinds of property. Here they are: Classic: This is the stuff that immediately pops into …
Recently, my Google homepage included a link to an article with the following title: Lia Thomas and the long tradition of ‘gender policing’ female athletes The subtitle of the article was as follows: For as long as women have excelled at sports in the modern era, their gender and sexuality have faced fierce scrutiny, historians …
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As a proud white heterosexual man, I proudly present the latest ruminations of my immensely fertile brain. The above sentence is a joke, of course, but only partially so. I’m not a proud white heterosexual man. Pride is the offspring of achievement. I didn’t do anything to achieve my white heterosexual male status. Those are …
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Socialists firmly believe that business profits are the bane of the consumer. If capitalists weren’t greedy bastards trying to maximize profits, consumer goods and services would be much more affordable. It is, therefore, in the mind of a socialist, preferable to shift production toward the government. Politicians aren’t chasing profits, so profits aren’t baked into …
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