Author: Mr. Groovy
What My College Road Trips Should Have Taught Me About Personal Finance
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…
Understanding Constitutional Rights as a Form of Property Would Make America a More Perfect Union
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…
American Journalism: Where Logic and Decency Go to Die
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…
Innate Traits Are Neither an Achievement nor a Stain
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…