Monthly Archives: March 2015

Affectionate persuasion: How to sell like a ‘natural’ – with a carney’s empathy.

“Fifty years from now you two could still be together, surrounded by everything you love, all because you won this trophy of your affection for her today…” And that is closing like a carney, with an empathy for that particular … Continue reading

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How @DreamExec Mike McNally helped me #DreamReal about orgasmic splendor.

The Affectionate DisplayMy favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can’t, you won’t waste my time.I grow regardless.I think I must have cabin fever. Whenever I get … Continue reading

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How not to be misled by bad ‘science’…

‘Scientists’ who take government money say what the government wants said. This is news to you?Once you accept that a government ‘scientist’ will say what he is told to say – what then? This week at The Church of Splendor: … Continue reading

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The how and why of a happy marriage and family in five minutes.

Father’s DayMore Married. More Husband. More Father. More Man.Available at Amazon.comMichael McNally of The Dream Executive interviewed me recently for his podcast. The full episode will be available soon, but here’s a short clip that’s near and dear to my … Continue reading

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#BlurredLines: WC Handy wants his song back.

The #BlurredLines judgment erases all creativity. American popular music is built on a very spare music theory. Virtually all of it can be reduced to just four very simple songs, with one – the 12 Bar Blues, originally attributed to … Continue reading

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What should you do? Act upon the universe as it really is.

It’s Splendor or Squalor – and everybody’s gotta take a side…Photo by: Martin TalbotGot a taste for a mouthful of big words? My favorites are these: Ontologically-consonant teleology. What that means is conforming your moral philosophy to the true facts … Continue reading

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Central banking and the auto-annihilation of the human race.

See the kiddies? Not for long.Photo by: BobZero Hedge, killingly conveying how all of human destiny is being laid to waste. Your prize for your complicity in the cultivation of the über-state is to explain to your grandchildren why they … Continue reading

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#BrotherYouAskedForIt: The media has betrayed your freedom? So true – starting with the National Review.

If you can’t trust a Soviet spy…My second-favorite laugh line from Atlas Shrugged is the reporter who effuses, “I know what I’d like to be: I wish I could be a man who covers news.” I bring it up in … Continue reading

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Digging into a sexy love poem to get a handle on active, imagic, metaphor-rich writing.

My favorite job title is Poet. Why? No license, no union, no credentialism. If you can learn, you will. If you can’t, you won’t waste my time. I grow regardless.Forgive me my vanity, but I want to dig into the … Continue reading

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Conservatism, the fanatical preservation of the status quo, is why your world will only change from the inside out.

“Things could be better? For whom, precisely?”Photo by: TOONMAN_blchinFrom May of 2012, a free-wheeling anthropological history of the idea of conservatism – the fanatical preservation of the status quo – illustrating why you will not be released from your self-imposed … Continue reading

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