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Wednesday, 10 August 2011
Too many years ago to admit, I had the privilege and persistence to study economics and political theory with the best minds of the time. When these renown, experienced intellects cited post-WWII economics, pre-WWIII economics and the future, they drilled into our tired minds the inevitability of th...
Friday, 29 July 2011
Three children under eight years of age were shot dead last night in the projects of Miami – a spree shooting with an AK47. No motive. No suspects. No one heard or knows who or why... Japanese school children go to school with mini-geiger counters – country-wide. The technology strapped to thei...
Wednesday, 13 July 2011
At a very young age, I had the privilege of studying with Ernest Becker, the author of, among other things, “The Denial of Death”.  Sometimes, I wish I could speak to and with him about what all thinkers these wondrously complex and dangerous days consider the obvious – the fact that we, as h...

Tuesday, 21 June 2011
(A colleague drove me to distraction in order to force me to write this short piece)                           ...
Sunday, 12 June 2011
….and Weiners Prevail. My helpful whiz – the fellow who uploads my articles for The Orion Post, has been unable to do the postin...
Tuesday, 05 April 2011
Chatting our way to... This blog has been silent since March 11, 2011, the day the earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan, and set off the ...
Saturday, 19 February 2011
Noticed? Have you? Noticed? There is a global movement toward claiming and receiving human dignity. Sure, inherently, social and eco...
Tuesday, 15 February 2011
Excellence, Role Playing, and the Need for Balance and Variety: It is no accident that today’s entrepreneurs – those with staying p...
Monday, 14 February 2011
The Need for Personalization, Objectivity and the Imposed Power of Containment: It serves corporate managers well to have played and to...
Wednesday, 09 February 2011
Last year when I started to write a book about the dangerous attraction of terrorism to young North American males, including Canadians, a...
Monday, 31 January 2011
There’s no arguing the fact that, currently, given the glaring demographics, middle aged (and beyond) adults are being “orphaned” la...


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