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From The WHY I AM SELF-EMPLOYED Department

Here in Memphis, a local $7 an hour movie projectionist got fired because he wrote a negative review of the upcoming Fantastic Four movie for a website. And it looks like Fox made them do it.
Get the whole story.
As I have asked before… Just who owns your time?

To Succeed In Business, You Have To Accept Reality

One thing I have noticed about successful people is that they have a firm grasp of reality.
Let’s define terms for a minute, shall we? Reality is not what we wish it was, what we want it to be, or how things should be. Reality is what is.

Example: I like wearing t-shirts, khaki pants and sandals. [...]

Random House and Bad Words

Following on the last post regarding the use of certain words, I was delighted to come across the following from the Random House website concerning their decision to publish “bad” words in the dictionary.
From their site:
Our first duty as dictionary publishers is to describe accurately what words in fact do exist in the language, however [...]