I never saw the movie Predator in its entirety. But I do remember this epiphany that the character Dutch (Arnold Schwarzenegger) had when he discovered the blood of the movie’s super formidable villain on the ground. If it bleeds, we can kill it. Dutch didn’t say that killing ol’ crab face was going to be …
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and they deserve to get it good and hard. —H.L. Mencken I’m not a fan of government. I have a jaundiced view of government, not because a book told me to, and not because some blowhard on the radio told me to. No, …
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I am not a fan of the higher education business model. As far as I’m concerned, it’s the greatest scam ever perpetrated on the American public. First, in order to get its flagship credential—the vaunted bachelor’s degree—you have to spend two-thirds of your time studying material that has nothing to do with your major. Second, …
In the financial independence community, the difference between your monthly take-home pay and your monthly expenses is called the gap. The larger the gap, the more you have to save and invest. The best way to grow the gap is to make more money while simultaneously lowering your expenses. In this post, I want to …
Imagine this scenario. You go into a pizzeria for a pepperoni slice and a coke. But there are no prices. When you ask the young lady at the counter what the pepperoni slice and coke will cost, she doesn’t know. In fact, no one who works there knows. The only way to tell is to …