If you want to make new money in this world, you have to be aggressive and creative. Jeff Bezos got rich from Amazon.com because he was early to the show and willing to buy out competitors as they arose. Walmart was slow and sluggish in responding and it paid the price. In the same industry, […]

Sometimes you have someone in your life who really wants to change, but just can’t bring themselves to go through the whole way. What do you do then? It depends on how much the person in question matters to you. Recognize, first, that change is a long-term process. If you’re not willing to invest the […]

Some people like the peace and quiet of the town or the countryside. I prefer the City, the larger the better. When you live in the City, things are always going on. If you don’t have a car, there’s good public transport. If you don’t have a girlfriend, there’s a new chick around every corner. […]

There are only two cities worth living in in Canada — Greater Toronto and Greater Vancouver. And of the two, Toronto’s better. I’ve lived in both cities. There’s something definitely unique about the West Coast (Vancouver, perched on the Pacific). But unique in a bad way. It’s a left-wing paradise where the rain never stops […]

I like Bill Burr. He has a line about there being “an epidemic of gold-digging whores” which always gets a groan from the women in the audience. Bill strikes me as a bit of an anti-feminist, which wins props from me. I hate feminism. I think it’s a corrosive, entitled bonus ideology for a gender […]

There is a tendency among young guys to be burned by the first friends you make. To ensure that we’re not alone with our time, we gravitate toward losers and assholes with no motivating concern for ourselves, some of whom are interested in our money or our swimming pools or our cars or other material […]

There are some people who make a life mission of “having it all” — being a parent to children, having a good job, living the dream life in combination… and they, their heads screwed on straight, have been aiming for this sort of life since childhood. Since life is tricky, cumbersome, and many-sided, it’s not […]

The corporation exists solely to make a profit. It is not an organization of social good, though social good may come out of its operations. Jousting on the open market, like sallying forth with a lance against enemies near and far, brings one no closer to victory. The game must be fought again and again, […]

The house was situated atop a hill, and that made it easy to run down. Sprinting along the grass took the runner to a concrete fountain in which tadpoles swam. The frogs had been at it until their babies were bred. The frogs, which lived only a short time, did their best to procreate. It […]

Today’s military has it easy. Why? Because technology is all on its side. Everything from ruggedized laptop computers to satellites circling the globe benefit the “war-fighter.” The Romans could have held on another two thousand years if they’d had this shit. In modern times, the “logistics tail” of the army is longer than the fighting-men […]