(Originally Published 9/16/2009) Thank God for global warming! Without it, we would be still locked in an ice age and the famous “finger lakes” of…
Global Warming Considerations
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Author: skepticalobserver
First Published August 16, 2009 – Well, we now know this recommendation was not adopted and that same-sex marriage was legalized. But this is what…
(Originally Published 9/27/2012) In a September 19, 2012, WSJ article, Geoffrey A. Fowler reported that more billionaires are signing on to the idea, promoted by Bill Gates and…
Paying for Marriage, A Welfare Idea (Originally Published 9/25/2009) The phrase, “You get what you pay for,” is usually used to justify a seemingly high…
Shrunken (Now Vanished) Kodak and its Southern Offspring (Originally Published 8/21/2010) In 1972 I was employed (since 1965) by the third largest company in the…
Sevier County Tennessee “Taliban” (Originally Posted 9/14/2010) Sevier County, nestled in the foothills of The Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee is best known as…
Japan, Saudi Arabia, and the USA (Originally Posted 2/22/2011) Living in Japan in the early 1990’s, we often read and heard that Japan is a…
Man Alone
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(Originally posted December 11, 2012) I have been thinking about the income inequality issues, both gender income differences and class warfare issues, and scouting around…
(Based on an 8/21/2011 post – Edited and data updated to 2015 in this post) August 21, 2011, I wrote a post making some fun…
GDP, the total value of goods and services produced within the country in a given time interval and the key measure of national economic health,…