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In light of so much chaos that has gripped the world lately, I wanted to change focus briefly and reflect on the passing of one of the most titanic, sovereign-minded human beings in modern history. Most people have never heard the name Chuck Feeney… and he worked very hard to
In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be
When Julius Caesar first crossed the English channel and invaded Great Britain in 55 BC, he thought it was primitive, barbaric, and uncivilized… especially when compared to the splendor of Rome. But Caesar knew it had potential. He wrote to his colleagues back in Rome that Britannia had vast minerals,
Byzas of Megara must have been positively dumbfounded when he first set foot on the banks of the Bosporus River. It was the year 667 BC, more than 2,700 years ago, and Byzas was on a mission from the Greek mainland to find new colonies. His fleet had just landed
In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be
There’s something pleasantly reassuring about mathematics: We shouldn’t have any doubts about the fact that 2 + 2 = 4. Yet over the past few years, we’ve started seeing the most absurd assaults on basic science and mathematics. The most hard-core fanatics now assert, with a straight face, that it’s
The first time I ever visited Zimbabwe in late 2010, the country was barely one year removed from the end of its legendary hyperinflation. Hyperinflation in Zimbabwe had become so extreme– roughly 90 billion trillion percent (that’s not a misprint)– that the government finally capitulated in 2009 and simply abandoned
In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be
Uruguay is widely known for its exceptionally frugal former president, José ‘Pepe’ Mujica, a farmer and former revolutionary who was in office from 2010 to 2015. What the country is not known for, however, is its tax incentives. Let’s get into the details below… Caveat Emptor: We are not professional
In 1958, Leonard E. Read wrote the book I, Pencil. As the book’s title suggests, this is the story about a pencil, told from the pencil’s perspective. The pencil traces his beginnings – from the cedar forests of Northern California and Oregon – to the mill in San Leandro, California,
By the time an army of 80,000 Russian troops invaded Ottoman territory in June 1853 at the outbreak of the Crimean War, the imperial finances of the Ottoman Empire were already a complete disaster. The Ottoman Empire had once been the most dominant superpower in the world. But that had
In a world full of unimaginable absurdity, we spend a lot of time thinking about the future… and to where all of this insanity leads. “Future Headline Friday” is our satirical take of where the world is going if it remains on its current path. While our satire may be
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