Starbucks Walks

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This is my second mention of Starbucks in two days.  Walking is popular and Starbucks can capitalize on the popularity with a simple plan.  All they have to do is create an app called Starbucks Walk... Read More

Pasadena Priorities

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Pasadena it seems you have your priorities mixed up.  My local Starbucks had to remove the outside seating on South Lake Avenue because of a “permitting issue.” And yet in the same block ... Read More

Choose One

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“Morality is part of our factory-installed software.” Frans de Waal  “If there is no God, everything is permitted.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky... Read More

Orchid Rescue

To understand this opportunity you have to have felt these tugs on your emotions.  A sense of warmth and love when you hear the phrase “rescue dog”  and a tiny bit of guilt when an orchi... Read More

The Future

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“The upper classes are merely a nation’s past; the middle class is its future.” Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (1905-1982).... Read More

Two Tokes Assisted Living

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On Wednesday I got my haircut by Cathe at Sir Guys in East Pasadena.  Cathe has redecorated on a rock and roll theme which I really like.  She has lots of excellent poster art from the 60’s an... Read More

iPad Cover

This is how innovative new ideas evolve.  I was at the annual student art show at Weizmann Day School last night.  Some of the art was made as if it were books covers and I thought “this could... Read More

Transabled

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There is a transgender person at my synagogue and we are accommodating him in places like the bathrooms and the pronouns. This is the proper thing to do in our world today.  If a person chooses to be... Read More

Ending Discrimination

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The Market is the best antidote to discrimination.  It rewards talent and penalizes prejudice. Heather Mac Donald, Manhattan Institute Photo is from a modern High Anglican Church in the London Suburb... Read More