October 2011
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More Things I Believe
Once again, thank you for taking the time to not only find my blog but read it (and special thanks to those of you who left comments). I’d like to take this opportunity to share some more of my beliefs. I believe that the guy who invented speed bumps – especially the one you hit so hard that it knocks the fillings out of your mouth – needs to be slapped. Then hugged because some kids...
Things I Believe #1 (original post from March 4th)
Thank you for taking the time to read this blog – I know you’re busy, so this shows a wonderful commitment on your part in sacrificing some valuable time…..time that can be better spent watching reality shows or catching up on the latest episodes of Charlie Sheen and The Porn Stars. So while I have your attention, I’d like to take this opportunity to share with you some of my personal...
February 2011
1 post
BUY THIS BOOK OR I'LL SHOOT THE DOG
With the release of LOST EXIT last week, I’ve taken the next step in a long journey. In some ways, writing the book was the easy part – the hard work of growing an audience, building demand, and increasing sales for that book starts now. The next few weeks will be consumed with book reviews, ARC’s, blog posts, and press releases (while waiting for Oprah to call….). While all that is going on I...
January 2011
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July 2010
4 posts
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TFI Daily News: The sad math of U.S. aid in Haiti:... →
By Dana Milbank, Washington Post, July 13, 2010 We’re two weeks into Defense Secretary Robert Gates’s new campaign for more “coordination and discipline” in the military’s public statements—and everything seems to be going according to plan.
On Monday, six months after the earthquake in Haiti…
“We slowly see some more children that are malnourished. They get diarrhea...”
– Marleen Steerker, a doctor at MSF’s mobile clinic in Haiti, in the Haiti - Six Months After the Earthquake podcast.
Listen to the podcast.
(via doctorswithoutborders)
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A Culture of Swine
It’s been six months and there are no noticeable differences in anything in Haiti, at least to casual observers. Rebuilding is non-existent. Cardboard villages have been replaced only by tent cities. Roads are blocked by debris that some Haitian officials estimate could take 20 years to remove. Medical supplies and doctors are still in demand but that need remains unfilled. ...
March 2010
7 posts
Corporate Greed Kills Again →
It is the Wall Street equivalent of a coroner’s report — a 2,200-page document that lays out, in new and startling detail, how Lehman Brothers used accounting sleight of hand to conceal the bad investments that led to its undoing.
The report, compiled by an examiner for the bank, now bankrupt, hit Wall Street with a thud late Thursday. The 158-year-old company, it concluded, died...
Robert Reich: The Sham Recovery →
Are we finally in a recovery? Who’s “we,” kemosabe? Big global companies, Wall Street, and high-income Americans who hold their savings in financial instruments are clearly doing better. As to the rest of us – small businesses along Main Streets, and middle and lower-income Americans – forget it.
“There is much more to being a patriot and a citizen than reciting the pledge or raising a flag.”
Jesse Ventura
“My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.”
Ernest Hemingway
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Government’s role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.
Jesse Ventura
February 2010
1 post
January 2010
5 posts
Tiny Words, Tiny Bombs →
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“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing...”
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