Sports Unpopular Opinions and Double Standards It wouldn't surprise me if Donald Sterling was a rich, arrogant prick who holds unpopular views of people who are different from him. And it wouldn't surprise me if many of the people
Politics If it's Such a Privilege, Why do they Have to Stick a Gun in Your Face I think taxes are morally reprehensible. Taxes rob an entire population of its financial resources in favor of a tiny political elite that has a long-term track record of incompetence and deceit.~Simon
Politics Anti-discrimination Laws Make Discrimination Worse If women were truly paid $0.77 for every dollar earned by men for truly equivalent work as the President has claimed multiple times during his administration, most recently during the 2014 State
Technology A New Design It's been a little over 1.5 years since I last updated the design of my site and I recently got the itch. So over the course of 3 or 4 nights last
Business How Improv is like Customer Service The guys over at Zapier break down Tina Fey's rules for improv and how those rules are also very applicable to good customer service.
Business Branding isn’t Just a Logo Excellent piece shattering the misconception that a cool logo alone makes a successful brand. Branding is about so much more than the logo on the business card or polo shirt. Branding is about
Economics Minimum Wage Myths Debunked The minimum wage is an economic and political topic I care about very much. I care because while supporting a minimum wage is so easy to do from an emotional point of view,
Politics Forcing Businesses to Stay The Providence Journal reported that Cox Communications will be eliminating 234 jobs from their West Warwick facility. In response to that, RI State Rep Ray Hull has forwarded a bill to the General
Business Reputation vs Regulation [M]ost regulation is useless. It's the need to maintain one's reputation that does most to keep us safe — especially today, with instant feedback from the Internet. No clumsy government regulation is needed.
Politics How Cronyism and Corruption Brought Down Detroit Excellent video on how Detroit's fall was linked to government favoritism. The moral of the story is if you as a taxpayer don't want to be on the hook for someone else's bad
Economics No We Shouldn't Raise the Minimum Wage In his State of the Union address, President Obama again voiced his support for a $10.10 minimum wage. We had a fast food strike last fall calling for $15/hr. Two of
Business How to get a MBA From Eminem James Altucher lays out a brilliant breakdown of the final battle in Eminem's 8 Mile.Definitely worth the read for anyone interested in understanding how to market to your customer and defeat your
Politics Can't Have Your Freedom Cake and Eat it Too I have no issues if 2 gay people want to get married. I don't get hung up on the notion that marriage is only between a man and a woman because marriage is
Politics Evidently Progress is a Bad Thing On 60 minutes we got to see what Jeff Bezos' idea of the future is. In a word, octocopters. The Amazon founder and CEO would like to see a future in which unmanned
Sports Where the Win Ranks On my way into work I'm listening to a local sports station and they're talking about where this year's Red Sox World Series win ranks in the recent history of local sports. I
Sports Clutch David Ortiz comes through with a timely grand slam tying the Red Sox / Tigers game in the 8th inning of Game 2 of the 2013 ALCS and the debate over the existence of
Politics Thomas Sowell on Who Shut Down the Government As per the norm, Dr. Sowell gets right down to brass tacks and lays out who's responsible for the fact that 20% of the federal government is shut down.
Politics Walter Williams on Social Justice [L]et me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I
Politics Federal Gov Budget Basics: Or Why the Budget Will Never Be Balanced A somewhat wonkish look at the federal government's budget and what it would take to balance it.The tl;dr version: Politicians spend absolute truckloads of our money, borrow/print even more, and
Politics Frank's Historical Rewrite Chris Dodd and Barney Frank were on CNBC a couple days ago discussing the 5yr anniversary of the failure of Lehman Brothers and the start of the financial crisis. In watching that video
Business Respect for A Plus K I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work… When I was 13 I had my first job with my dad carrying shingles up to the roof. And then I got a
Business How About We not Go Fishing It's not my job to help you with your fishing expedition.Being part of a small business means wearing many hats. As such I am constantly being solicited by sales reps trying to
Business Solar Cells to Power your Phone This is a really cool product -- a solar cell module that fits on or under your cell phone's touch screen enabling it to use the sun to recharge your phone's battery, giving
