The First Night of Hanukkah will be on Thanksgiving this Year. This has never happened before. Thanksgiving is set as the fourth Thursday in November, meaning the latest it can be is 11/28. 11/2...Read More
In the same way that the rotting carcasses of dead animals are breeding grounds for disease and pestilence. The rotting carcasses of failed cultures are the breeding ground of much of the worlds miser...Read More
“Democracy, more than any other form of government, expresses the will of the people.” “It is the will of the people that their government overborrow.” Peter Treadwell Investin...Read More
The LA County Arboretum in Arcadia is a visual feast. I took these pictures of details during a visit with Lillian and Rebecca during Passover. The first three photos are of the backyard scuba varie...Read More
My Brother Tom sent me a link to an Australian web site that purports to sell placebos. http://www.placebo.com.au/ What a great business idea but not what we are talking about today. The discussion of...Read More
In 1889 Thomas Curtis Clark wrote “The world of today differs from that of Napoleon more than his world differed from that of Julius Caesar.” He attributed that change to the railways. S...Read More
Organic everything. But please explain to me the difference between: “Organic evaporated cane juice” and Sugar? Apparently selling “health food” is easy and profitable because ...Read More
“If you have a garden and a library you have everything you need.” Cicero Lillian has grown winter vegetables in Pasadena, CA. Fresh broccoli, despite what you and I believed when we were ...Read More
We all know what Sticker Shock is. It is the stunned feeling you get when you see how much something is going to cost versus how much you expected it to cost. So you already know what Effort Shock i...Read More