That was a wonderful thing to do.

I don’t believe in any god at all and I would still pick it up and try to return it. We don’t need a supernatural being telling us what’s right and wrong. It’s innate inside all of us as social beings.

Right now it’s the double steak burger with cheese, plain, from Steak N Shake. So delicious.

Take your time and think about things. It’s a lot easier to overcome your cognitive biases when you slow down. Saying that, this is going to be a tough road we go down. Always having a nagging doubt about whether something is real or not is going to weaken the foundations of our reality in ways that open us to further manipulation.

You know, that was kind of a shitty thing for me to say. It’s mean-spirited and unnecessary. I apologize.

Have you read Workers Deserve More? And did I say they were two basic pillars?

So you’re telling me that a third of democrats now support open borders and public control of large corporations?

I would definitely have words with someone trying this shit.

What am I even making here?

Not when that job requires you to be either out in the heat or inside in a boiling hot attic. Maybe sometimes you’re in a climate controlled environment but mostly you’re working in a hot environment trying to get the HVAC working again.

So he both can’t and can get a job?

Just like they were dating.

What a terrible family.

I’m a bit older and much of my life was lived before the Internet. Social media has changed us all for the worse and you’ll do yourself well for staying off of it as much as you can. And yes, there is much more to life than what you’re aware of right now in your life.

Why don’t we just start with a mandatory 4 day work week and see how many people want to work on Friday.

Okay, maybe it was $1200.

Though it’s much more likely that man made God in his image.

Our mistake is in believing that any god at all exists.

A number of years ago my wife and I ate lunch at Waterside Inn in Bray, UK. We had wine pairings with all our dishes and every aspect of the experience was near perfection. Total bill was around $1500. Worth every penny.

I had a lot of questions after Trump was first elected and I started reading as much as I could, not only learn more about how and why it happened but also about Trump himself. One of the first books I read was by his niece, Mary Trump. The very aptly titled, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man. I came away almost feeling sorry for Trump after what he’d been through. To say his father was an absolute monster and his mother was selfish and uncaring are understatements. Trump had an older brother, Fred Trump Jr, who was groomed from an early age to take over the family business. The senior Trump demanded ruthlessness from Fred but he didn’t have it in him. The pressure destroyed him and allowed an opening for Donald to step in. Trump knew he wasn’t smart enough to be the ruthless and successful businessman his father demanded, so in order to please his father and compensate for his shortcomings, he began to construct a very fragile illusion of himself as strong and capable and ruthless. Gradually, this became Trump’s reality. It wasn’t based on facts or observations or careful reflection; to Trump, it became what he said it was. And in order to sustain this illusion there must be no encroachment of objective reality like the multiple scientific studies showing no link between autism and vaccines. Trump can only exist if people adore him and support the illusion that he is all powerful. It’s why he frequently says that when people talk to him they call him “sir”, or that every response from the White House to counter any criticism of Trump always talks about how he’s the most engaged, the hardest working and the best president this country has ever had or our military is the best in the world. To Trump, might not only makes right, but is his only recourse when things inevitably go wrong: “we are going to beat the fcking sht out of them”. And if his adoring public has any doubt about vaccines and that they might cause autism, then this becomes who Trump is. A reckless and dangerous figure who will do anything to maintain the adoration of his public but is framed as a fearless warrior who fights for the American people. It becomes a caustic, self-sustaining cycle that is the heart of the chaos we now find ourselves in.