Drug Ads on TV It’s a widely accepted fact that 70% of all television advertisements are paid for by the pharmaceutical companies but what’s unclear is why these ads are so uninteresting. If you watch ads from other consumer products like fast food or shoes or Doritos or Snickers, these ads will be very […]
The Boy Plunger
Dance Your Way To Riches There was this famous dancer back in the 50s. He traveled around the world. He would dance in various cities around the world and he would receive and send telegraphs from and to his broker. He would look at the various data from the stocks that he was watching […]
Origins Of Wealth
Gangsters To Bankers The Medici family started out in the Middle Ages in Florence as a gangster family. A couple of them were hanged for their misdeeds. Within a couple of generations later they had become the most powerful banking families in Europe. One of the best prototypical rags to riches story of wealth […]
Art Gallery Seduction
Frame Is All One of the most important traits of a con artist is to have massive amounts of confidence. That’s why they are called con artists because they are confidence men. It turns out that in order to pull off a con for any reason all you need to do is believe what […]
Life’s Viciousness
Clint Eastwood Samurai There’s a lot of similarities between the Clint Eastwood cowboy character and a lot of man-with-no-name samurai characters. In fact a lot of the Western movies with Clint Eastwood were remakes of Japanese period piece Japanese samurai movies. The idea that drives evolution is natural selection and you’ll find natural selection […]
Divine Child Origins
Called Me In A Panic A friend of mine called me a couple of weeks ago and absolute panic. She told me she was pregnant. She said a whole bunch of other stuff, terrible was happening, but she couldn’t really calm herself down enough to explain exactly what was happening. So, I went over to […]
Wait Until He’s Dead
Math Teacher There was this math teacher at this public high school in a kind of a low income middle income area. He was a very clever, very manipulative math teacher. He would target females. He liked the young under aged females, but he would pick them very carefully so that their parents wouldn’t […]
Punishment Of Evildoers
Three Month Probation I’ve a friend who was a programmer a long time ago. He’s probably still a programmer today, but when he first got one of his first jobs, they told him that he had to go through a 90 day probationary period, which he was okay with. But after a couple of […]
Revenge Against Evil
Not So Fast I’ve a friend of a friend who started working at a very large very powerful company about 10 years ago. After about a year of working there he found out that this very large and very powerful company was engaged in very terrible activities. They were exploiting people. They were killing […]
Necessity Of Competition
High School Blunder When I was in high school, about 100 years ago, I ran track and I ran cross-country. I got into the habit of jogging after school a couple days a week and one day I was out jogging and a friend of mine that I worked with saw me. He called […]
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