December 2023
26 articles published this month.
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Business & Marketing
Four Popular – but Really Bad – Ways to Manage Your Most Valuable Employees
Four Popular – but Really Bad – Ways to Manage Your Most Valuable Employees I’ve written many times before about how just about everything the experts recommend for boosting employee morale and productivity…
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The Economy & Investing
What Is the Future for Stocks Over the Next Five Years?
What Is the Future for Stocks Over the Next Five Years? Just before publication, I asked Sean MacIntyre, who, along with my broker Dominick, has been managing the stock portfolio I set up ten years ago, if he…
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Notes From My Journal
Things I’ve Been Thinking About Lately
Things I’ve Been Thinking About Lately: Does Personal vs. Political Hypocrisy Matter? I’ve noticed that there is often a gulf between the political and the personal when it comes to theories about what is…
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News & Views
Health Watch
Health Watch The High Cost of Mediocre Healthcare in America The US spends more per capita on healthcare than any other country in the world. And yet, it ranks 59th in the world in terms of life expectancy…
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Worth Watching
BlackBerry
Released May 12, 2023 Directed by Matt Johnson Starring Jay Baruchel, Glenn Howerton, and Matt Johnson Watch Time: 2 hours The Plot The story of the rise and fall of the first smartphone. What I Liked About It…
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Worth Reading
Robert De Niro at 80: The career of an indelible movie icon
“Robert De Niro at 80: The career of an indelible movie icon” By Calum Russell in Far Out Magazine Read Time: 10 minutes (20 minutes with clips) “After rising to public consciousness in the 1970s, De Niro has…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Quick Bites: Historical Photos… Baby Names… Cleaning the Lincoln Pool
* Ancient Earth is a very cool tool that lets you input an address and see how the area has changed over the past 750,000 years. Click here. * Number 3 Son and wife are pregnant and figuring out baby names…
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Quiz of the Week
Can you finish the lyrics to these Christmas classics?
Can you finish the lyrics to these Christmas classics? I aced this one! Click here.
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Readers Write
Re my essay “A World Divided: Is a New Dark Age Coming?” in the Dec. 10 issue
“Today's post was very well done and lays perfectly a great historical proposition, summary, and conclusion for the argument you make.” – CF “I thought I had a pessimistic view of the future. A new dark age? I…
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Postscript
One last thought…
“There is nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.” – Erma Bombeck
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Notes From My Journal
Connecting the Dots — December 15, 2023
Things I’ve Been Thinking About Lately Irony and the Universe. About 30 years ago, I had a quirky insight into the old “meaning of life” question. It came to me while I was sitting in a dental office, inhaling…
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The Economy & Investing
Clip of the Week: Not a Great Time to Buy a New Home
Home sales fell to a 13-year low in October – presumably because interest rates are still pretty high and home prices haven’t come down hard enough to meet demand. According to the National Association of…
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Worth Reading
All the Sinners Bleed
All the Sinners Bleed By S.A. Cosby Published June 6, 2023 352 pages This is S.A. Cosby’s 6th novel – and I think just about every one of them was a bestseller and/or won some sort of award. It was The Mules’…
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Worth Considering
The COVID Response: What We Got Wrong — December 15, 2023
New Information About Fauci’s role in the Cover-up According to a CIA whistleblower and information obtained from the House Oversight Committee, Anthony Fauci did in fact play a major role in both the creation…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Quick Bites — December 15, 2023
TERF Wars… Hero of the Year?... Christmas Carol Mash-up… Regrets Men are truly taking charge. Transwomen (i.e., biological men who “identify” as women) have succeeded in taking charge of feminism by redefining…
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Quiz of the Week
How’s your French?
Very basic? You might still ace this quiz. It is so basic I believe someone who’s never taken a class in French could get at least half the answers correct. Click here.
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Readers Write
From JS re what I said about my recent doctor visit in the Dec. 10 issue
“I never did get vaccinated as I didn’t trust it. Now you are the third person I have known to have adverse effects. Glad the good doctor was receptive to your concerns.” From FP re my “World Divided” essay…
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Postscript
I don’t know about this…
It’s an Apple holiday ad called “Fuzzy Feelings.” It combines stop-motion animation and live action to tell a modern-day version of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but less nuanced and more predictable. Plus, it’s…
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Notes From My Journal
I saw my cardiologist last week
It was a routine checkup six months after my surgery to remove blockage from the carotid artery in my neck after my stroke. “I know how annoying it must be when patients come to you with Google-based diagnoses…
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News & Views
The US Army Puts in Place a New Vax Policy
For most of my life, the US Army was a refuge for young men that didn’t have college plans or a trade they intended to learn. It was an organization that offered not just food and lodging, but education and…
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The Economy & Investing
Clip of the Week: Loans from Uncle Warren
From Garrett Baldwin, writing in Postcards from the Florida Republic: “Let’s talk about the Warren Buffett Closed-End Fund. A lot of people avoid closed-end funds because of their misunderstanding of risk. But…
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Worth Reading
A Billion-Dollar David vs. a Trillion-Dollar Goliath
Read Time: 11 minutes Joe Kiani Joe Kiani emigrated to the US from Iran when he was nine. Thirteen years later, he had a master’s degree in electrical engineering. Two years after that, he began working on a…
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Worth Watching
Sick of Myself
Sick of Myself Watch Time: 97 minutes I wanted to watch Forgotten Love, which had been highly recommended by my Myrtle Beach buddies. But I wanted to watch that one with K, and she was not available. So, I…
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Fun and/or Interesting
Brooklyn Artist Secretly Upgrades City's Homemade Flyers
Quick Bites:Phantom Artist… Dictionary Stand-Off… Chevrolet Meets Hallmark… Pop Quiz! Left: Max Kolomatsky’s version of a small business’s sign above the original in a storefront window; right: a redesigned…
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Readers Write
Ready, Fire, Aim Cuts Through Business Growth Complexity
From CW: Ready, Fire, Aim – “It cut through all the BS…” “I recently read your book Ready, Fire, Aim and thought it so nearly cut through all the BS and distilled the stages a new business goes through…
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Postscript
2023 was a big year for FunLimón!
Click here to read about just a few of the many accomplishments of our students and athletes.
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