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  (source: xkcd.com) Two people wrote to me very upset about my last article. Everyone on the Internet has to be in agreement. OR ELSE! The first: I had written: “Peace can only come from peaceful people.” But AK wrote: “Really? Is that what stormed the beach at Normandy? Peaceful people? No. Hard men win […]

Martin Luther King nominated Thich Nhat Hanh for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1967 and he’s a buddhist monk and peace activist. And when he was standing right in front of me tonight I was blown away by what he said. We went to an opening for an exhibit of his calligraphy. He looked like […]

I hate being a slave. One might think: don’t be a jerk. You weren’t in chains in the 1800s. That was real slavery. OK, I hate arguing. Go away. But let’s take a look at the average person. The average person works at a job. Fine, you might say, a job is a lot different from […]

  A friend of mine just became the victim of serious identity theft. Someone used her social security info and other identity info to create a series of credit cards over the past seven years. For the past two years he had stopped paying the bills. Her credit rating fell from 780 to 530. The […]

This is a bulleted FAQ on starting a business. No joke. If you’re a lawyer, feel free to disagree with me, so you can charge someone your BS fees to give the same advice. If you can think of anything to add, please do so in the comments below. I might be missing things. If […]

I hate buying houses. I don’t “hate” many things. But I’ve lost millions of dollars buying houses. The stress is unbearable when you need to sell. And you have no money when you need it. It’s a prison. The white picket fence is the prison bars. The bank is the guards looking in. And the […]

  “What can I do that would make you happy?” the doctor said. “The only thing is if, right now, you write me a check for a million dollars,” I said. “And you think you’ll be happy then?” “I KNOW I will be happy then,” I said. “I don’t think so,” he said. “You’ll find […]