A message from Owen Bell: Merry Christmas to everyone who reads this blog! I hope you have a wonderful time and a great New Year. Christmas is a human creation, so it can mean whatever you want it to mean. The Pagans used their mid winter festival to worship their gods, but then Christians changed …
“Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.” (Steve Maraboli, “Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience”). Epicureanism stands for moderation in all things, friendship, …
“This idea of two men getting married is the most bizarre idea in human history,” Bill Donohue, President of the Catholic League, told host John Fugelsang, adding that the purpose of marriage is a “duty” to procreate. “The whole purpose of marriage is to have a family,” he said. “It’s not about making people happy. …
The problem of falling productivity in developed economies is not a mystery, as is often claimed. The root of the malaise is low investment, and a major cause of that is the practice (now ubiquitous in US and UK quoted companies) of “paying executives huge bonuses to reward short-term success”. Investment decisions are determined by …
A 2003 law passed by Big Pharma’s friends in Congress actually prohibits Medicare, which serves the elderly, from negotiating drug prices for the 52 million Americans in the program. Because of this cynical give-away to some important election funders, Americans pay an extra $16 billion a year more than is necessary for pharmaceuticals, whose cost, in America, …
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