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SMART IS AS SMART DOES…OR DOES NOT

SMART IS AS SMART DOES…OR DOES NOT

As a gen­er­al rule, the smartest peo­ple in the room are the ones who don’t think every­one else in it is stu­pid, and the most cred­i­ble are those who have and con­sis­tent­ly hold prin­ci­ples. Recent events make it blind­ing­ly obvi­ous who falls short on both counts.Read the rest

A Billion Here, A Billion There

A Billion Here, A Billion There

It must be real­ly annoy­ing to be so rich that bleed­ing hearts are always bang­ing on about how you could sin­gle-hand­ed­ly solve world pover­ty or what­ev­er. So, here’s a sug­ges­tion to ease the pain for the world’s lead­ing mul­ti-bil­lion­aires: try cash­ing in on the wis­dom of Ben­jamin Franklin: “It is prodi­gious the quan­ti­ty of good that may be done by one man, if he will make a busi­ness of it.”Read the rest