Comparision of Pesticides on Fruits and Veggies

There is a website that produces a list containing 53 fruits and vegetables ranked by the amount of Pesticide Residue that is found on the fruit/veggie.  Now, why is this important?  Well, if you buy all organic fruits and vegetables, probably not of much use to you.  However, if you are like me and prefer…

Investing Perspective

Last year I read a report produced by David Collum called Thirty Years of Investing from the Cheap Seats (See attachments below).  Now, up until reading this report I had never heard of the man before.  He is a professor of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Cornell University and not a financial big wig necessarily. …

Book Review: Ideas Have Consequences

Book Review Ideas Have Consequences by Richard Weaver, 1948 This book is an intense, well written journey through the effects of Ideas.  This book easily has the most underlined quotes in any book I’ve read so far.  I’ve included below a list of each and every one of these fantastic one liners or paragraphs.  On…

The Vineyard Parable

Matthew 20: 1 – 16 Jesus’ Parable of the Vineyard 1 “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire laborers for his vineyard. 2 When he had agreed with the laborers for a denarius (typical day’s wage for labor) for the day, he sent them into…

Rant: The Economy Works For You!

I saw a sign outside a “Communications Workers of America” (CWA) location that stated “It’s time the economy worked for everyone!”.  Now, I have actually seen this sign a few times but for whatever reason it really struck me today.  Is is arrogant and it shows a blatant disregard for basic Economics and Logic.  Since…