I’ve heard them all.
Many years ago, when I was still young and beautiful, I was doing a temp job for an oldish man. He was a lawyer, probably late 40s, early 50s, and he wasn’t particularly nice looking. He was, however, slim.
Out of the blue, he asked me, “I suppose you’re dating a very goodlooking man?”
I said yes.
He said, “Why don’t beautiful women date ugly men?”
I asked him if he would date an ugly woman. He didn’t respond. The atmosphere was tense after that.
I’m convinced that men don’t see the double standard.
And that makes me the bad guy?
The first time an American called me a libtard, I was devastated. I had no idea what he was talking about because I was unfamiliar with the term, but the tone of his words was aggressive and insulting. I gathered, though, that he thought I was a liberal. Coming from Europe, at that point, I was flabbergasted. Up until that time, I thought I was a conservative.
It took me many years to finally understand that, in America, what we think of as conservative is somewhat slightly left of center in America. We obviously don’t live on the same planet.
Winners vs Humanity.
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Government has become the tool of party ideologies. It seems to have forgotten the realities of basic administration.
Yes. Yes. And yes. Government does have a moral obligation to its citizens. Even more importantly, government in a republic is supposed to be a purely administrative function. It was never intended to be ideological.
A competent government would ensure that buildings are safe, that there is sufficient potable water for everybody, that the rivers are clean, that bridges are built to withstand its environment, that there is provision for natural disasters, and that the justice and policing systems ensure fairness for…
I think women screwed themselves, and the Lords of the Universe won.
So let me put it to you this way.
It’s 1955!
There’s Mr. Business Owner, and he employs a typist and a sales associate in 1955. The typist works full day and she earn $250 per month. The sales associate (male) is earning $395 per month. The lady gets promoted to sales associate, but she still earns $250 per month.
The business owner is happy with the arrangement because he needs sales people, and he couldn’t really afford to pay another male nearly $400 per month. So he gets the best of both worlds. He gets to pay $645 for the two…
Did you know that 92% of student debt was owned by the federal government?
About 42 million people in America have student debt — myself included. As there are some 330 million people in America, that means nearly 13% of students are indebted to the federal government which owns virtually all the debt. To add insult to injury, the federal government profits by this in several respects.
- Interest rates are between 2.75% and 5.3%.
- Student debt can never be written off.
- If you die, then your children are obliged to pay your student debt.
- The federal government has made a profit of $135 trillion out of student debt during the last ten years. …
So many times I read something, and there is something about the writing that tells me that the person is not a writer. That’s because writers really do have a way with words. It took me years to establish that part of it was rhythm, and then another few years to establish that it was the incorrect order of words.
Did you know, for instance, that adjectives in English follow a very precise order, and that if you put them in the wrong order, you lose your reader because something jars?
The order is:
- opinion
- size
- age
- shape
- color
- origin
- …
In a story that has flashed across the known universe, Luke and Leia travel to Cloud City to meet their half-sister.
Two days ago, the Universal Reporter scooped its arch rival, The Holodecker, to break the story, that the late Darth Vader had an illegitimate daughter, Francine. Francine Devereaux was mothered by Ilisa Devereau de Bourbon, the 110th in line to the Grand Duchy on the planet, Wilvechio.
Wilvechio lies outside the Outer Rim Territories, within an asteroid belt that cuts it off from most of the inter-galactic traffic. While Wilvechio has always been a member of the Galactic Republic, its distance, and the difficulty of navagiting the asteroid belt surrounding it, has kept it relatively unknown.
Baron Calrissian has been…
It’s pointless trying to fix oneself if there is no overall understanding of what matters.
The world is so flush with self-help books and articles — all of them focused on helping people live successful (whatever that is) lives. Yet, most of us define success in terms of financial worth. Less is written on living a meaningful life, and when it is, it is normally wrapped in religious poppycock.
It is impossible to live a meaningful life without understanding what is meaningful in the broader spectrum of our planet, earth, all the life on it, and time. To sum up, meaning must be assessed in terms of time, place, and life.
The Greatest Good.
The greatest good for…
Understanding the causes of loneliness can help eradicate it.
Any psychologist will tell you that loneliness is a state of mind. I think that’s a bit simplistic. Loneliness happens when there are certain skills lacking, certain perspectives that we believe, and certain behaviours followed.
Not Knowing How to Connect With Others
Lonely people seldom know how to connect with others. They don’t understand what goes on inside others, because what goes on inside them is different to what goes on inside most other people.
In order to understand others, one must know where they are coming from — not the faux part, but the real part. If people have never lived in the same way that…
