Posted by RB on November 1, 2010 · 1 Comment
“I believe in world peace. I believe it is possible.” – Every politician or beauty pageant contestant ever. Highly unlikely. That’s not to say that it wouldn’t be desirable. It’s just not going to happen. Even in an idealistic world where everyone had enough food, followed the Golden Rule, did not covet status, wealth or … Read more
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Posted by RB on November 13, 2008 · 2 Comments
Greetings, all. While I’ve been almost completely inactive with respect to blogging for the last 4-5 months, I’ve been surprised to see that the blog continues to get 200-400 hits a day despite a complete lack of new content. Anyhow, I’m in the process of recommencing blogging. However, I’ll be taking a different approach and … Read more
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