A few months ago I installed Mingly, a Chrome extension that is supposed to streamline your Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn info all into one e-mail widget. Nice idea huh? Epic fail. The little bug doesn’t like Gmail and crashed my inbox frequently. It also didn’t give me much more than access to messages in those […]

ObamaCare needs to be repealed. Not because universal healthcare is wrong. But because it’s basic implementation is flawed. More people with access to healthcare means a greater demand on doctors. However, the law did little to increase the supply of doctors. Demand will simply outpace supply and in basic economic terms that makes the prices […]

In high school, I remember reading a book of great oratory. Cicero, Churchill, Antony    and Lincoln inspired and enlightened as their words jumped off the page. I was reminded in an e-mail forum that this coming week marks the anniversary of another great speech, given by Gen. Douglas MacArthur at West Point in 1962. While […]

Before this mess started, I was sitting on an old tipped over refrigerator talking to a sweet teen I met through the local After School Program. I’ll call her M. M wanted a favor. She wanted money. This budding, beautiful woman wanted so badly to participate in her High School’s sports day, which required a […]

Yesterday might not have been your best Monday. Maybe the coffee got cold too fast. Maybe the pile of work on your desk made your eye twitch or maybe you just plain didn’t want to be there. Go ahead, list all the problems you had. 1. 2. 3. 4. Have you thought about a few? […]

Payback can be a pain. Grenada is having a little trouble with money these days, specifically money it owes to Taiwan. A friend sent me this interesting article Monday detailing the drama. The synopsis is this: Grenada got a lot of foreign aid loans after Hurricane Ivan wiped out half the country. The Caribbean country […]

My old employer, The Daily Sparks Tribune, recently asked for a series of articles on my experience living abroad in order to have a better life in America. For your reading pleasure, here is the first installment.     “Home is what you make it,” I thought optimistically as we opened the door to our […]

This little initiative is making the rounds and raising a few questions. I am fairly close to an information absolutist. If it is true, it should be told. But music and movies have problems with this little open medium called the internet – it spews their stuff all over everywhere for free. However, our robust […]