Dear {{full_name}}, We have a word for alcohol addiction: alcoholic. We have a word for nicotine: smoker. We have a word for opioids: addict. Every one of those affects about 1 in 10...

              Why Are We So Afraid to Learn?   I don't know a single person on the left who will watch Fox News. I don't know a single person on the right who will watch CNN. Suggest it, and watch what happens....

Me at age 11 leading my hometown (Hart Michigan) Bicentennial parade.                       Santa Claus is exactly as real as Democracy   Both were invented to control your behavior. Neither has ever existed...

WEDNESDAY ONE THING  ·  FOURTH OF JULY EDITION 250 Years of American Genius This Fourth of July, skip the small talk about hot dogs and fireworks for a second. Talk about this instead. In 250 years,...

Let's talk about the most audacious con in the history of American commerce. It's not crypto. It's not a Ponzi scheme. It's MLB baseball and NFL football — and you, my friend, are the mark. Here's how the hustle works....

You're Freaking Out About Gas. The Data Says Calm Down
Dear {{full_name}}, Everyone's losing their minds at the pump right now. Social media is on fire. Your neighbor won't shut up about it. Politicians...

The Difference Between Forgotten and Forever Evolution spent 300 million years perfecting the human eye. It put them side by side. Horizontally. So you could spot the lion coming from the left...

 


    How Can We Mourn the End of Something We Never Had?   Every time I scroll through my feed I see it. Pundits, politicians, your neighbor with the yard signs — everyone screaming that democracy is...

AI walked into your life like it owned the place. Because it does now. Nobody knows what's coming next. But here's the thing — neither did anyone standing in line in San Francisco in...

The Inconvenient Truth About "An Inconvenient Truth" This Sunday marks 20 years since Al Gore told us the world was ending. So how'd that work out? This Sunday, May 24th, you're going to fire up the grill, crack...

Nine million followers. Zero new viewers. The social media lie finally has a receipt.

Dear {{full_name}},
I've been saying this for years. Fifteen years, actually, while managing digital media for...

The Greatest Marketing Line Ever Invented. It's two characters. It's changed everything. And you fall for it every single day. You think you're smart. You've got a college degree, maybe two. You read. You research. You...

You would never order it if it was on the menu as what it actually is. Let's start with veal. If a restaurant menu said "Baby cow, raised in a crate so small it cannot turn around, specifically so its muscles never develop,...

Balls and Strikes





Balls and Strikes
The National League was started in 1876,  150 years ago.  And for 150 years, every call in every game by every umpire has been 100%...

At the new land, a new attraction is found, which produces excitement and new potential. Can new love be attained? The courtship begins. CLICK HERE TO PREVIEW TO STREAM

To Download and...

Part four of seven from the album "Circle of Sovereignty"

The Story: Death has been revenged, but great emptiness and loneliness continues. To produce a cure, life cannot continue at the land where the...

Part three of seven from the album "Circle of Sovereignty" The story: Revenge must be achieved There must be great consequences for causing the pain and loss of death. And, it must be more than that. Whatever it...

Part two of seven from the album "Circle of Sovereignty"   The story:   A shocking and unexpected death occurs, caused by an new enemy.  In death, finality claims the departed completely. But for the...

It’s almost here. Finally. This Saturday night at 6:30, I will premier the audio movie for Circle of Sovereignty. Most of you on this list are all over America, but if you feel like taking a week off work and...

Remember when banks had convenient time and temperature signs?





What if those signs said. ““Want to know what the time and the temperature is? GO FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF!”...

The Grammys - Smash or Trash?
There are essentially two sets of Grammys. There are 94 different Grammy award and category’s. 84 of them are “real” and 10 of them are turned into a prime time TV show for...

As if YouTube and Apple and Spotify don't already make it hard enough for artists... On January 9, 2026, Elon Musk's company X Corp (formerly Twitter) filed a federal antitrust lawsuit in Texas against the National Music...

I don't post my political views online. Here is why: 1) I might be wrong. I have been wrong before. I will be wrong again. Why should I believe that just because an issue or person has got me to an negative...

We all love performing a classic air drum fill! So lets start the New Year off the best way possible with a classic drum fill to get us in the mood for a great new year. Just start any song below at the time listed,...

We have gone through the Ages: Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Enlightenment, Industrial Age, Information Age. Each one of those ages could create something new that effected our emotions. ...

Witches became Witch Doctors...what happens next...

The witch became the witch doctor. The witch doctor became the physician. The physician is becoming the overseer… and soon, largely the...

Why We Don’t Eat Puppies It’s because of Kindchenschema. There’s a biological phenomenon called Kindchenschema (German for “baby schema”), first described by ethologist Konrad Lorenz in the 1940s. It refers to a...

Listen to the Music

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Laugh or slaughter. It's our choice. Sometimes the solution is just changing the words we are choosing to use.



"I have a dream." That statement gets one outcome. "I have a PLAN." That statement...

The 5 Kinds of Money School may teach us a bit about money. Real life has taught us all a bit more. What no one told me, that is now very clear, is that when I learned about money, it was considered to be one entity. ...