George Washington on "Greatness", Trump, and Hair

The secret of Donald Trump's hair, along with the secret of George Washington's success, and more, in my new book TRUMP: God-King.

George Washington & Marilyn Monroe

I decided to write a blog with nothing to say, and without feeling inspired.

The intention behind things is so important. It’s why most actors suck. You can’t fake depth, heart. 

What will a lack of intention do for this blog post? That is to say, it has no direction as I set out. Something about Marilyn Monroe, I think. But what? 

Yet it is backed by something fundamentally good – the values I sharpened and deepened by writing my first book. Also, I hope, it’s guided by the Providence that George Washington, and others, trust to guide them in the right direction. 

It all sounds a bit effete, though, doesn't it. (Well, I am talking about Marylin Monroe...) Hmm....

Aphorisms Schmaphorisms, Part 2 - George Washington's secret to getting what you SHOULD want in life.

What is wrong with these "positive aphorisms"?

“Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.” – Thomas Edison

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

Life in the Sun?

Life in the Sun?

Stephen Hawking has something to do with a new hundred million dollar effort to find life out there, somewhere. A writer from The Washington Post wrote a banal, and dare I say it, silly (I dared! I dared!) essay about life elsewhere. Well, at least he was trying. He failed, but tried, which is more than I expect from the media's mass manipulators of mendacity,  these days. (Coffee makes me alliterative. Sorry. I’ll try to hold back.)

Positive Aphorisms Ruined with Ruthless Analysis. #1 If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining.

If you want light to come into your life, you need to stand where it is shining. - Guy Finley

Really? I think this may be confusing a metaphor for the real thing.

Spring, Sprang, None. Kurt Vonnegut and My Eight Seasons

Kurt Vonnegut said that if you stop looking at the heavens, and keep your eyes here on earth, you’ll find there are six seasons, no matter what the solstices and equinoxes and all those things I’m not quite clear on say. He’s close to right. I’m here to add my own two seasons (while renaming his extra two seasons) giving us a nice round infinity-on-its-side number of seasons: 8.

This is the most bang for your buck available. Eight (count ‘em, eight) seasons.

Get ‘em while they’re hot.

President Obama vs. Austin Washington (Representing George Washington)

Let the fight begin:

For the sake of accuracy, the reason America became an economic powerhouse had nothing to do with the sort of education Obama mentions. It became an economic power house in the 19th century, led largely by people with little or no education (Thomas Edison, Andrew Carnegie, et al.)