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Soda Soaked Laptop
“Accidents, try to change them — it’s impossible. The accidental reveals man.” — Pablo Picasso When I interviewed Abigail Garner, the author of Families Like Mine, I asked if there was a price attached to activism? Her answer, “The bigger question is what price is attached to being a small business owner, especially in a…
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More on Microfinancing: Credit to World’s Poor
“Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.” — Niccolo Machiavelli Much has been written about microfinancing since Muhammad Yunus won the Nobel Peace Prize this year. In the latest issue of The New Yorker, Connie Bruck takes a…
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Nationwide Offers RetirAbility CheckSM
Nationwide recently launched its new tool to help consumers prepare for retirement. The National Retirement Risk Index (NRRI) recently revealed that over 40 percent of Americans are at risk of being financially unprepared for retirement. This is a pretty scary statistic if you consider the state of Social Security and the lack of defined benefit…
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The Price of The Good Life
“I think war is a dangerous place.” – George W. Bush Friday, on my flight home from London, I sat next to a soldier. I assumed he was a soldier until we started talking. He is a Blackwater Security consultant on “vacation” from Baghdad. It took me a minute, but I quickly remembered why I…
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Time is Money
Einstein taught us that energy and matter are convertible with a cute little formula that I confess after several courses in college physics I don’t really understand. But as a metaphor I think I really get it. When we work for money, we are converting our precious moments of time into units of financial wealth.…
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Ten Money Questions for Bob Witeck & Wes Combs
Bob Witeck and Wes Combs are the authors of Business Inside Out: Capturing Millions of Brand Loyal Gay Consumers. Their DC-based firm, Witeck-Combs Communications, Inc., works with uber cool, gay-friendly clients and their names are synonymous with thought leadership on LGBT demographics and marketplace trend spotting. I asked them to respond with thoughts about the…
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Of Principles, Wal-mart and GLBT
My blood rarely boils at things I read, most of the time I just brush it off and go back to my laid back personality. But then there are times that it strikes me hard; I’m sure you all have heard about Wal-mart giving some money and supporting GLBT inclusion within their company. No matter…
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The Rule of Two with Food & Money
“Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are.” — Anthelme Brillat-Savarin An appetizer, bread, a drink, and dessert… in addition to your meal, pick two of the four, but never three. So goes the advice from Brian Wansink, the author of Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think.…
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Legally Blonde and Legally Separated
“The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.” – Anatole Broyard I think it’s tragic that Reese Witherspoon and Ryan Phillippe are separating. Yesterday, their publicist announced this news after seven years of marriage. The Guardian reports that, “The Witherspoon-Phillippe split would seem to confirm…
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Gays and Halloween
“Where there is no imagination there is no horror.” — Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr. Gays typically love Halloween. Tonight, the largest adult outdoor Halloween event in the world takes place in West Hollywood where the city bills it as “Hot guys, skin, and creative costumes!” I’ve lived in the LA area for almost a decade…
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