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.

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 [...]