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I was born on April 4, 1977 at Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, CA. My parents – Robert and Diane – were the first generation children of Jewish mother immigrants from Europe. My grandmother on my father’s side, Ethel, came…
50 years ago today one of the truly great books of the 20th century was published: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. The hostility evoked by any mention of Rand’s name is of course a given. But at root Rand’s ideas celebrated…
My sales from ’88 to ’92 were $10,000 to $13,000 a month, and the cost of goods was only $1,000 to $2,000 a month. Then they started putting out so much product, raising the price on packs and putting chase…
There was a huge riot at the California Institution for Men in Chino, CA, about 40 miles east of LA, over the weekend (“Hundreds Hurt In California Prison Riot”, The New York Times, August 10). UPDATE (Mon 8/10, 12:30pm PST):…
Human nature, in no form of it, could ever bear prosperity. – John Adams Letter to Thomas Jefferson, quoted in David Brooks “The Next Culture War” Over the past few years, however, there clearly has been an erosion in the…