December 9, 2024 - Brain Dumping in Retirement

The Mind of Your Better Angel

By Jim Bauman December 9, 2024Opinions and EditorialsBelief Systems, Better Angels, Points of View, Polarization

People are guided in their voting choices by their underlying belief systems. Assuming that most people's guides are kindly motivated, let's assume that these guides are angels. What would be the difference, though, between a good Left bending angel politically versus one on the Right?

I Want More Cake

By Jim Bauman December 9, 2024Opinions and EditorialsArmchair Economics, Billionaires, Greed, Mother Earth

Billionaires, even though there are relatively few of them, are accumulating more and more wealth at the expense of the "little people" all 7 billion of them. They are increasingly getting involved politically for no good reason except to become trillionaires. Mother Earth is not pleased.