july 5 in idea barrages

1.) Small business is vital, small business is wonderful. But once a business is too big to listen to the needs of its workers, its customers and its local community, it has failed. It has failed its compact with society, no matter how much “profit” it has on the ledgers.

2.) If you’re fried inside your armor by a fireball, it could be said that you died of old mage, from a certain point of view.

3.) There is something intensely American about a chain gas station and a redneck in a tent next door, engaging in a price war, underselling each other in cheap fireworks but, like, not in a good way.

4.) If you are both a Flat Earther and a gold standard obsessive, you are a fiat earther.

5.) Twister yoga?

6.) Less losing your mind, more loosening your mind.

7.) A Tom Petty parody about unanswerable koans called “Tree Fallin”?

8.) Confidence? Oh yeah, man, that’s cool. You know what’s REALLY cool? Doing a thing not because you’re sure it’ll work but just because it’s the only thing you know how to do and it must be done.