October 2019
77 articles published this month.
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Notes From My Journal
Why Modern Abstract Art Prices Have Gone Insane
“Art = technical competence times emotional honesty squared.” – Michael Masterson I’ve been looking seriously at art for nearly 60 years, collecting it for about 40 years, and selling it for about 30 years…
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A Word to the Wise
pocketecture (noun)
I just invented a word I’d like to get people using… It’s “pocketecture,” and it refers to the design of pockets in any kind of bag. For people that love bags (as I do), pocketecture is very important. K…
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Fun and/or Interesting
French Court Rules Sex Death Counts As Work Accident
A court in France has ruled that a man who died from a heart attack after having sex during a business trip had suffered a work-related accident and that his employer was liable. That sounds like a joke, right…
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Worth Reading
The latest issue of AWAI’s Barefoot Writer — October 11, 2019
In this issue: * “Tranf0rm Your Writing Dream into a Custom-Fit, Joy-Provoking, Money-Generating Reality in 9 Simple Steps” * “Where Limitations, Hurdles, and a Lack of Clients Doesn’t Matter” * “On Dying…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Building An Underground House With Pool
This is amazing!...building underground house with underground pool!
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
Principles of Wealth #31
There are several assets that have a higher historical ROI than stocks. By adding one or two of them to your portfolio, you can reduce your exposure to stock market risk while boosting your overall results…
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Worth Quoting
Chuck Yeager On Concentrating On Results
“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results.” – Chuck Yeager
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Fun and/or Interesting
Founding Fathers Protected Whistleblowers Two Centuries Early
In an article posted on History.com, Christopher Klein points out that the Founding Fathers passed the country’s first whistleblower protection law just seven months after signing the Declaration of…
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A Word to the Wise
ben trovato (adjective)
Ben trovato (ben-truh-VAH-toh), an Italian phrase, comes from a saying that was common in Italy in the 16thcentury: Se non è vero, è molto ben trovato. It means “Even if it’s not true, it’s a happy invention…
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Worth Reading
The latest issue of Independent Healing: “Don’t Fall for the Great American Heart Hoax…
In the October issue, you’ll discover clear evidence that conventional medicine’s two main weapons against heart disease – stents and statins – don’t work. First, you’ll learn: * Why heart attack survival…
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Fun and/or Interesting
The Impossible Skill Of Bird In Cage Art
The Bird In A Cage Art -the skill level required to do this is beyond belief...
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Notes From My Journal
Learning Languages Through Quora's Imperfect Translations
“It is astonishing how much enjoyment one can get out of a language that one understands imperfectly.” – Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Quora is a knowledge-sharing website where questions are asked and answered –…
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A Word to the Wise
ludicrous (adjective)
Something that’s ludicrous (LOO-dih-krus) is so absurd or silly it makes you laugh. As I used it today: “I like [Quora] because the questions are usually inane and the answers are ludicrous.”
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Fun and/or Interesting
Half The World's Languages Face Extinction Risk
There are currently 7,111 spoken languages in the world. About 40% of them are spoken by fewer than 1,000 people and are in danger of disappearing.
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Worth Reading
The White-Collar Job Apocalypse That Didn’t Happen” in The New York Times
The article refutes the claim that the USA was in a long-term trend of losing jobs to overseas operations. More than a million low-skilled jobs like data entry did move offshore over the past 10 years. But…
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Readers Write
An email from AC
I will always be seeking to learn, improve, and grow. Words are supremely powerful things but still can't express what you've taught me through your writings and personal discussions. You are the gold standard…
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Fun and/or Interesting
The Unconventional Truth About Marriage And Love
"Love Language" video with this intro from Mark: A refreshingly un-PC view of marital relations...
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Notes From My Journal
Auto Debt, Student Debt, Federal Debt: What’s Not to Love?
“It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.” – Leonard Orr Auto Debt, Student Debt, Federal Debt: What’s Not to Love? Bill Bonner has been writing a series of interesting essays about…
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A Word to the Wise
bamboozle (noun)
To bamboozle (bam-BOO-zuhl) is to deceive by trickery, flattery, etc. As used by Bill Bonner, above: “The president and his advisors assure us that the Dow will hit 30,000. Warren, Sanders, et al. have their…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Women Inventors Behind Three Essential Technologies
Women invented the fire escape, the windshield wiper, and the laser printer.
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Worth Reading
Fight No More by Lydia Millet
This is a collection of interconnected short stories by a very good writer. The stories are told through the perspective of Nina, a high-end real estate broker. Each chapter is located in a different house and…
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Fun and/or Interesting
The Problem With Blaming Others For Your Problems
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From My Work-in-Progress Basket
The Guilt of the Almost-Rich Progressive
“It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocket-book often groans more loudly than an empty stomach.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt Inside the Mind of the Not-Quite-Rich Leftist I’ve never been inside his/her…
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A Word to the Wise
rapacious (adjective)
Rapacious (ruh-PAY-shus) means aggressively greedy. As I used it today: “We know what they are – rapacious, unscrupulous monsters that are getting rich off of the hard work of honest people like me.”
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Fun and/or Interesting
University Of Michigan's Diversity Provost Earns $400,000
The University of Michigan’s “Diversity Provost” makes $400,000 a year.
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Worth Reading
The Qualities of a Leader” in Taki’s Magazine
Theodore Dalrymple is the sort of writer that makes me wish I knew him.
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Fun and/or Interesting
White Liberals' Unspoken Attitudes Toward Black Voters
How white liberals really view black voters…
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