Screaming at children over their grades, especially to the point of the child's tears, is child abuse, pure and simple. It's not funny and it's not good parenting. It is a crushing, scarring, disastrous experience for the child. It isn't the least bit funny.

People getting rich in a free society in general - with some scammy exceptions, which are rare - makes everyone else richer, too.

We are not supposed to be all equal. Let's just forget that. We are supposed to have equal rights under law. If we do that, we have done enough.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

It means zero to be against greed.

You can do what you think you can do and you cannot do what you think you cannot

The sad fact is that spending rises every year, no matter what people want or say they want.