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Bret’s Three Great Fears »

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!A prominent New York psychiatrist once declared that there were three basic human fears — change, rejection and failure.
 
Having spent a life of change, rejection and failure, I tend to disagree. In fact, I’m probably an expert in […]

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THE KNOWN UNIVERSE »

 
On a clear night, depending on your location and ability to scan freely from horizon to horizon in all directions, the average person is able to view approximately 3,000 stars with the naked eye.
 
On July 26, 2002, CNN News reported that several witnesses in the Washington DC area saw bright orange and blue lights […]

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THE KNOWN UNIVERSE »

 
On a clear night, depending on your location and ability to scan freely from horizon to horizon in all directions, the average person is able to view approximately 3,000 stars with the naked eye.
 
On July 26, 2002, CNN News reported that several witnesses in the Washington DC area saw bright orange and blue lights […]

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Goodbye George Carlin »

 THE WOLVES ARE SILENT, ONLY THE MOON HOWLS
 
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom by a means of speculation and beliefs. Most philosophers have a knack for getting right to the point in very few words.
 
Plato – “Philosophy begins in wonder.”
 
Socrates – “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
 
Aristotle – “All men by nature desire to […]

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Goodbye George Carlin »

 THE WOLVES ARE SILENT, ONLY THE MOON HOWLS
 
Philosophy is the pursuit of wisdom by a means of speculation and beliefs. Most philosophers have a knack for getting right to the point in very few words.
 
Plato – “Philosophy begins in wonder.”
 
Socrates – “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
 
Aristotle – “All men by nature desire to […]

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Hollywood Role Reversals »

 
 
Life is all about choices. Buy the ticket, take the ride.
 
It’s also about being in the right place at the right time. Some might even call it destiny.
 
In the late 70’s and 80’s, I lived in Hollywood and studied screenwriting for several years under many prominent screenwriters. One was Ernest Lehman, who has […]

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THE 11th SAGE speaks-THE BIRTH OF BASKETBALL »

 
Basketball is a peculiar game. Five half-naked men (or women) compete against another set of five half-naked men (or women) in a monumental effort to toss a round ball through a hoop, called a basket, more times than their opponents in a prescribed period of time.
 
Men play basketball to get some exercise and show off. […]

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THE 11th SAGE speaks-THE BIRTH OF BASKETBALL »

 
Basketball is a peculiar game. Five half-naked men (or women) compete against another set of five half-naked men (or women) in a monumental effort to toss a round ball through a hoop, called a basket, more times than their opponents in a prescribed period of time.
 
Men play basketball to get some exercise and show off. […]

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YOUR SHARE OF THE GLOBAL PIE »

 
What would be your fair share if everything was divided equally among everyone on this planet?
 
If all the land on Planet Earth was divided into equal parcels, each person would have slightly less than five acres. This would include many uninhabitable areas, such as Antarctica, Greenland, high mountain peaks, swampy lowlands, areas preserved for […]

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POPULATION CENTER OF THE USA »

According to the 2000 Census, the new center of population of the USA is a point three miles east of Edgar Springs, Missouri. This is the spot where there are just as many people north as south, and as many people east as west.
 
Located some 100 miles southwest of St. Louis, on the edge […]

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