Category Archives: social sciences

Organizational Life

Management Craft: It’s an abomination to God that corporations should have “personhood” status before the law, but that organizations have their own life is obvious to anyone. It seems almost a tautology that the best organizations die too young and … Continue reading

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What's Shaking? Oklahoma Edition

Here in central Oklahoma, we are down at the southern tip of the Humboldt Fault. I know a little about seismology. It became a childhood fascination after we moved to Anchorage, Alaska just a year following the Bad Friday Earthquake … Continue reading

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If I Could, I Would

Yep, if I had as much money as he does: [Ventura] vowed to apply for Mexican citizenship so he can live there more months of the year…. “I will never stand for a national anthem again. I will turn my … Continue reading

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Cain Don't Know Game

As a management tool, nothing compares to Game. Be the man. Your number one concern in life is the mission. Know what that is for you, and never deviate from the course. It’s largely the same for men and women, … Continue reading

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Guessing Dates

Lots of frantic posturing about November 5 and 9. There’s this drive to get folks to pull their money from the big banks by November 5 and switch to something smaller, local, and more like a savings and loan or … Continue reading

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Nature of Government

Government in the Postmodern West has returned to its roots, becoming once again a matter of one society conquering another. In ancient times, most imperial conquests did not bring that much destruction, nor any massive number of dead bodies, when … Continue reading

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Internet Demographics and Awareness

Apparently the traffic here has risen just high enough to attract the spammers. I’m getting a lot of spammy comments these days, something which became significant about the time I starting receiving 200 hits per day on a routine basis. … Continue reading

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False Economies

We’ve seen where hidden economies contribute to our actual production, but aren’t counted officially. Now we’ll discuss fake economies which are counted, but produce nothing. A basic principle: Shuffling money and information is not production. Government also produces nothing we … Continue reading

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Fools Rush In

I really didn’t think it would come this soon. And it may not, but for all I and thousands of others can tell, it’s going to happen before the end of the month. Maybe any day now. Despite the utter … Continue reading

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Hidden Economies

You may be aware of the concept of unofficial economic activity, that which isn’t calculated into the formulas because it’s illegal, black market, or in some other way underground and unreported. There are some good estimates and some bad ones, … Continue reading

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