A person's historical level of self-sufficiency is often predictive of future well-being. The inverse of self-sufficient is dependency, which Thomas Sowell argues is a key to holding people back economically...
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Dependence as a Key to Holding People Back
A person's historical level of self-sufficiency is often predictive of future well-being. The inverse of self-sufficient is dependency, which Thomas Sowell argues is a key to holding people back economically...
Saturday, August 16, 2014
Teaching Kids Violence
An interesting blog post by Michael Kaplan at The Forward.
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| Israel |
Of course it is not just in Israel that adults encourage children to "pretend" violence. Kids playing army is common the world over.
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| Iraq |
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| Russia |
What are the repercussions of these games? Are they meaningless? Just boys being boys or does "acting" out pretend violence breed the potential for real violent acts?
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Humpday Humor: Garry Shandling on American Culture
Comedian Garry Shandling on the WTF Podcast hosted by Marc Maron. Shandling questions American culture and it's obsession over Charlie Sheen...
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