Poetry, Prose & Philosophy from Life
Gym membership = $25 p/month Regular gym visit= $1 co-pay (actual cost is $8 each time you visit) Spin class = $5 co-pay (actual cost is $40 each time you attend) Personal trainer assessment = $100 (actual cost is $800) Personal trainer session = $150 p/hour (actual cost is $1200 p/hour) One year of … Continue reading on Health Insurance Costs
He wakes every morning at six AM without fail; followed by a morning prayer – his head in the shower. He dresses in neat pressed clothes that smell stale; followed by a morning commute- his head in a shadow. He promptly arrives at work in his cheap pick-up truck; then devours a cheap breakfast … Continue reading Complacent & Christian
I am writing this blog while sitting in my living room on my chaise lounge, the ceiling fan is slowly turning and I am comfortable and safe. Today I went to work and earned a wage and the government took a percent of my pay and put it towards the collective good of the state. … Continue reading A Child, is a Child, is a Child
Sometime last year I was having a post-work cocktail with a colleague, of whom I have become positively acquainted with. He and his partner, at that time, happen to be expecting parents and the topic of childhood vaccinations came up. I expressed that I was undecided on vaccinating my (future) children and I was refuted with, … Continue reading On Vaccinations (and Burritos)
The ethical permissibility of the Patriot Act hinges on promoting the better good, or the means justify the end argument, in short: utilitarianism. The utilitarian argument for the Patriot Act allows it to be ethical, as it promotes the better good, and finds the loss of privacy worth the gains in security. I will contend … Continue reading The Patriot Act & Alternate Realities
On October 17th, 1979, I was born. At this time, did I have any value that was transferred over from my parents and ancestors? At one point in time my family was used as a pawn by the King of England to steal land from the Irish and force out the Catholics. Should I, on … Continue reading The Dollars & Sense of Pragmatism in Affirmative Action
My father was not the kind of father that had a bunch of sayings, lessons or maxims that he repeated, as if he had all the wisdom of the world. In fact, in regard to lessons or things he explicitly stated, he said very little. He used to tell me to ‘never leave my wallet … Continue reading Wisdom From My Father
For what I can remember, every night, throughout my entire life has gone through, for the most part, the same process. The process is, generally speaking, quite anxiety provoking and it’s something that I prefer to avoid. I have gathered from this, that this is the reason for my proclivity towards staying up late- being … Continue reading First Meditation from Last Meditation
If you ever feel busy or overwhelmed by busyness it could be the product of one of the following (or both): 1. Your expectations of your own productivity are higher than your realistic productivity. Or. 2. The expectations of your productivity by external agents is higher than your realistic productivity. Solutions: don't create unobtainable expectations … Continue reading Meditations on ‘Busyness’
In the summer of 1936 the world was unstable: the fascist Nazi party in Germany prepared for the 1936 Olympic games; Mussolini, Italy’s dictator, pragmatically decided to become Germany’s ally; a heat wave plagued the depression ridden United States, which still suffered from Calvin Coolidge’s economic deregulation of the … Continue reading The 21st Century Proletariat
