It’s Time to Play TRUTH or DARE!

By: checkmate2012 (Diary)  |  December 24th at 07:08 AM  | 

TRUTH or DARE! Such a silly game some of us played as children that in the end, had no real consequences beyond embarrassment. Unfortunately it’s not a joke watching our elected leaders play chicken with our lives. It’s also not surprising since most of them only care about their next election so they’ll do just about anything, including obfuscate, exaggerate, and outright lie, in order | Read More »

A Societal Conundrum in America

By: checkmate2012 (Diary)  |  December 9th at 06:40 AM  | 

Why is it that in our sophisticated society we don’t have blueprint for economic success? It occurred to me that we have rules, theorems, how-to’s, etc. for everything except how to keep our economy thriving (a major exception is perhaps how to be a good parent or if one is ready to be one so let’s leave that aside). This seems so basic that a 5th grader | Read More »