UNCONVENTIONAL THINKING BLOG

Today, I heard a commercial for food stamps. A COMMERCIAL FOR FOOD STAMPS!

Yes, it is humane to offer a safety net for those who would starve without aid but two critical points factor into this mix:

In all of life, in every pursuit or endeavor we engage in, there are rules. Rules for business. Rules for love. Rules for managing our money and our relationships.

Rules. Rules. Rules.

As young people, we are taught to follow them. Actually more than that, to worship them with blind obedience. It is, after all, said to [...]

Of the seven billion people on the face of the earth, perhaps 50 are super novas: the extraordinary living amongst the ordinary.

We are all human, in a way, but they inhabit another dimension, a realm of intense genius and creativity that circles in high orbit above our bric-a-brac existences. The likes of Einstein, Gates, Feynman, [...]

Don’t tell me that Stevie Wonder can’t see the world around him. Have you heard the magic that comes from his brain. The insights. The majesty. The “Ribbon in the Sky?”

The truth is, he finds a way to see.

Don’t tell me that Beethoven was going deaf when he wrote the Fifth Symphony. Have you heard [...]

Everyday since Barack Obama took office, I have been tortured by his presence in the White House. Not because of his role as President but instead for his ascension to King. Last week he added a new title to his imprimatur: Pope Obama.

During his three-plus years on the throne, we have become a nation of sheep. [...]