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Simplifying: Living With Less Can Leave Us With More

April 5, 2013 By Scott Behson 4 Comments

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How a dot-com millionaire and a former missionary family have found greater riches in voluntary simplicity.

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Financial Reality Following Divorce

February 27, 2013 By Tasher 3 Comments

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There’s no way around it. We have to change our mindset regarding money after we divorce.

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How to Ask for Money for Your Wedding

November 17, 2012 By Albert Okagbue 12 Comments

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Tips for newly engaged couples on asking friends and family to contribute.

Filed Under: Featured Content, The Good Life, Weddings Tagged With: alternatives to marriage, asking family for money, asking for help, asking for money, deciding to marry, event planning, Families, finance, financial help, friends, getting married, how to ask for help, marriage, men asking for help, money, money taboos, The Good Life, wedding gifts, Weddings, when to marry

Corporate Firefighters

October 21, 2012 By Kevin Buckholtz 1 Comment

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Kevin Buckholtz’s workplace is not on fire. So why are his co-workers always “putting out fires”?

Filed Under: Business Ethics, Featured Content, Hands On, The Good Life Tagged With: anxiety, business lingo, buzzword bingo, calm, co-workers, competence, corporate missions, corporate speak, corporate world, crisis management, economy, emergency response, EMTs, finance, fire fighting, firefighters, good word, heroism, leadership, looking busy, McKinsey, mission statements, putting out fires, taking action, team work, The Office, trust, urgency, work/life balance, workplace issues

It’s All Just A Little Bit Of History Repeating …

August 9, 2012 By Seán Flynn 8 Comments

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Seán Flynn on the end of American Empire, and how the internet is more like the Catholic Church than you imagined.

Filed Under: Ethics & Values, Historical Perspectives on Goodness, The Good Life Tagged With: America, architecture, assassin's creed, British Empire, Catholic Church, classicism, colonialism, commerce, conflict, dark ages, economy, Europe, Fall of Rome, finance, free market, global economy, global trade, gothic, Great Britain, Great Depression, Great War, Hedley Bull, Hong Kong, imperialism, industry, information, international relations, internet, London, Louisiana State, market crash, medievalism, mercenaries, Middle Ages, neo-medievalism, New York, Pax Americana, Pax Romana, private military, Roman Empire, romance, Singapore, Technology, The Grapes of Wrath, Travels in Hyperreality, Umberto Eco, United States, Video Games, Wall Street, Walt Disney, Western civilization, world history, World War I

Blackmail in the Digital Age

July 24, 2012 By Carl Pettit 2 Comments

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How would one conduct blackmail in the digital age, in which the idea of an ‘original copy’ is meaningless? Carl Pettit considers this theoretical dilemma.

Filed Under: Advice & Confessions, Featured Content, Root Down, The Good Life Tagged With: 2012, Afghanistan, bailouts, blackmail, blood, campaign, candidates, cell phones, crime, digital age, donors, elections, evidence, extortion, finance, gold, incriminating, information age, internet, Intervention, Investment, Iraq, long con, military, murder, opinions, photos, planning, politics, post-war boom, presidential race, Prosperity, security, society, taxes, U.S. presidential election, victims, voting, War, wire tapping, World War II

One Dollar, Two

July 14, 2012 By Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

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This is a mad-capped, in-the-tradition-of-modern-art depiction of a notice I received from my bank, Wells Fargo, telling me that my account had, imagine, been inexplicably compromised, but through the bank’s humble, heroic and unremunerated efforts, no one was able to pilfer from me the $4.27 I keep in my checking account, so that I might feel secure.

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Ah, Newspaper Stands, I Remember Them Well 4.

July 5, 2012 By Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

In 1966, at 6 a.m. in the morning (sic), Jimmy Day and I used to deliver The Washington Post newspapers to the residents of the McLean Gardens Apartments over there at Van Ness Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown upper-Northwest Washington D.C. USA. There were paper boys in the day. Perhaps there still are paperboys, but I never see them. There were also boys shouting out the latest headlines as they sold newspapers on street corners of New York City. Maybe there are boys who still do this, (but I haven’t been to New York City in a decade or two). And there were, and are, newspaper stands on the streets.
We are not going to be seeing these things much longer, as much as we might long for and love and adore the past. So I thought I would try to memorialize newspaper stands, and maybe newspapers too, in art.
I am posting four pictures. Each of them is the same shot I took of some newspaper stands I came across on the main street in Bethany Beach Delaware USA, at 9 or 10 a.m. in the morning (sic), on July 3 2012.
I edited the picture in four different ways. I was trying to get them to look like modern art drawings, maybe modern art paintings. They remind me of the work of some modernist, but I can’t figure who. Do they remind you of some artist?

We are not going to be seeing these things much longer, as much as we might long for and love and adore the past.

Filed Under: Tim Ruane Tagged With: abstract expressionism, art, art reviews, business, dance, economics, finance, mens news, money, music, painting, photography, poetry, politics, religion, science, travel, video

News Boxes

July 5, 2012 By Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

In 1966, at 6 a.m. in the morning (sic), Jimmy Day and I used to deliver The Washington Post newspapers to the residents of the McLean Gardens Apartments over there at Van Ness Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown upper-Northwest Washington D.C. USA. There were paper boys in the day. Perhaps there still are paperboys, but I never see them. There were also boys shouting out the latest headlines as they sold newspapers on street corners of New York City. Maybe there are boys who still do this, (but I haven’t been to New York City in a decade or two). And there were, and are, newspaper stands on the streets.
We are not going to be seeing these things much longer, as much as we might long for and love and adore the past. So I thought I would try to memorialize newspaper stands, and maybe newspapers too, in art.
I am posting four pictures. Each of them is the same shot I took of some newspaper stands I came across on the main street in Bethany Beach Delaware USA, at 9 or 10 a.m. in the morning (sic), on July 3 2012.
I edited the picture in four different ways. I was trying to get them to look like modern art drawings, maybe modern art paintings. They remind me of the work of some modernist, but I can’t figure who. Do they remind you of some artist?

In 1966, at 6 a.m. in the morning (sic), Jimmy Day and I used to deliver The Washington Post newspapers to the residents of the McLean Gardens Apartments over there at Van Ness Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown upper-Northwest Washington D.C. USA.

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Ah, the Newspaper Stands, I Remember Them Well 1.

July 5, 2012 By Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

In 1966, at 6 a.m. in the morning (sic), Jimmy Day and I used to deliver The Washington Post newspapers to the residents of the McLean Gardens Apartments over there at Van Ness Street and Wisconsin Avenue in Tenleytown upper-Northwest Washington D.C. USA. There were paper boys in the day. Perhaps there still are paperboys, but I never see them. There were also boys shouting out the latest headlines as they sold newspapers on street corners of New York City. Maybe there are boys who still do this, (but I haven’t been to New York City in a decade or two). And there were, and are, newspaper stands on the streets.
We are not going to be seeing these things much longer, as much as we might long for and love and adore the past. So I thought I would try to memorialize newspaper stands, and maybe newspapers too, in art.
I am posting four pictures. Each of them is the same shot I took of some newspaper stands I came across on the main street in Bethany Beach Delaware USA, at 9 or 10 a.m. in the morning (sic), on July 3 2012.
I edited the picture in four different ways. I was trying to get them to look like modern art drawings, maybe modern art paintings. They remind me of the work of some modernist, but I can’t figure who.

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Mark Rothko PhD 3.

July 4, 2012 By Tim Ruane Leave a Comment

I am doing a series, maybe 6 or 7, of photographs inspired by the late wonderful and great abstract expressionist Mark Rothko. This is the third.
I think this is a picture of a giant HD TV, intentionally blurred a bit to give it that Rothko feel.
Bethany Beach Delaware USA July 4 2012.

I think this is a picture of a giant HD TV, intentionally blurred a bit to give it that Rothko feel.

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Leap of Faith

July 3, 2012 By Atalwin Pilon 1 Comment

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Atalwin Pilon took a leap of faith—into another country. Then he did it again, and again.

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The Ultimate Broker

June 25, 2012 By Ken Goldstein Leave a Comment

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Ken Goldstein looks at the vast marketplace that is the internet, and how we can broker our wares with ever-increasing efficiency.

Filed Under: Business Ethics Tagged With: Ameritrade, broker, buyers, Charles Schwab, econimcs, finance, innovation, internet, Marketplace, sellers, start-up

Hansen Clarke’s Student Loan Forgiveness Act Finds Big Support Online

June 23, 2012 By Gregory Kristof 5 Comments

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With student loan debt rising higher than credit card debt, Representative Clarke knew something had to be done.

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The Mind of a Venture Capitalist Is a Dangerous Place to Look for Clues to Manhood and Goodness (But Let’s Try)

February 28, 2012 By Tom Matlack 6 Comments

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Tom Matlack takes a look into his own mind. The results? Well, see for yourself.

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#16: Bullshit

January 16, 2012 By Tom Matlack 9 Comments

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If you punch me in the stomach, I react with a vengeance.

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Navy Lietenant Thomas Saenz Earns Master’s Degree in Combat Zone

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