I’ve given some thoughts to tipping as of late, since taking my fiancee out to dinner to celebrate my new (if less than ideal) job raised an obvious tipping situation. It’s always a bit of a conundrum; how much do you tip? Do you tip fifteen percent, ten percent, twenty, or some other value? How […]
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There is a growing consensus here in the United States that we need to get our budget in order, and soon. The deficit is rising higher and higher, the national debt is steadily building, and there’s not much agreement on what to do. Rather, there’s not much political will to do what most people readily
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I’ve been thinking quite a bit about perception and reality. Particularly, if being successful at something causes you to believe that it’s easier to do than it actually is, or that ‘anyone can do it’. If you make yourself a success at something, no matter what it is, do you start to think that other
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I have many pet peeves, from the oh-so common misuse of scientific terms (as any number of fellow Star Wars fans could point out to you in great detail, a parsec is a unit of distance, not time) to the need to include onions in almost every dish (I’m looking at my fiancee, Sondra, for
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The Rich are productive, intelligent, and knowledgeable. They are the driving force behind the economy. They have secret methods to build and maintain their fortunes, little known to the middle and lower classes. They should be taxed less, as they are the source of our country’s fortune. The Rich are lazy, greedy, and unproductive. They
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