The Realist Idealist

My $600 Bush-proffered economic stimulus hit my bank account a couple weeks ago and ever since I’ve been trying to figure out how to spend it.  Actually, “give” it, is probably a better way to think about it.
A quick run through of my living room will reveal a glaring emptiness (actually there are two large [...]

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Making good things (actually) happen is hard.
On any large scale, trying to make the world a bit better place is messy and complicated and almost always full of the same back-room shenanigans chronicled throughout the political, business, and tech sectors, but with one not-so-small difference: everyone involved acts like it’s not, and almost no one [...]

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…what would it be? Are we hard liquor or something smoother? Billy Bob at the bar takin’ down a Coors Light or James Bond sipping a martini over a game of cards? More like gin and tonic or rum and coke? Fruity? Shaken? Umbrellas? Stirred? Olives?
Whether you are one to partake or not, this is [...]

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