The Current State of Things

[Updated 10/1]
I don’t mean to play the genius card here, but our economy is in trouble.  The banks have given out too much money, people have spent too much money, and now we have to have our government (who has its own budgeting/spending/saving issues) bail us out.  We have two presidential candidates that think they [...]

Tug of War

When Thoreau wrote “Simplify, simplify, simplify,” there was no Internet, myspace, mobile technology, cars, computers, ipods, McDonalds, Coke, movies, Youtube, instant messaging, or blogs. He wanted only the bare necessities in a lifestyle that was fresh, original, and outside the herd of greater society. Great idea–don’t get caught up in American consumerist way [...]