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The Principles of Enlightened Self-Interest

In a previous post about the various political and social “-isms”, I discussed some of the more commonly known economic systems, and debated the whys and hows of America’s rejection of most of these. What I didn’t mention is a concept my husband and I call “enlightened self-interest”.

Enlightened Self-Interest works like this: whenever I [...]

Open-Letter to MySpace

Imagine this: my mother goes to check out my MySpace page because it’s connected to my Skype. She’s got a friend looking over her shoulder. Now they can only see some generic info about me, but at the bottom of the page is a listing a public profiles. One of those profiles has the picture of some woman, butt naked, playing with herself.

My mom about died of embarrassment.

No More Excuses – Flipping the Script

I have spent quite a few days since my origianl “No More Excuses” post thinking about the myriad little ways the world has changed. By today, 10 days after the world fell on it’s head, I finally began looking at it from a different perspective: that of the racist, the White Supremacist, the person [...]

Econo-Political “isms” and the ensuing schisms

Capitalism
Communism
Fascism
Feudalism
Marxism
Mercantilism
Socialism
All these -isms β€” what do they mean? Americans in particular are well known for their disdain of most of these. (Well, many Americans, anyway, and they tend to be pretty vocal about it). The thing is, no one actually teaches economics anymore, except as specialized College classes, so how do Americans [...]