Tools to Enlighten
Is a cashless society good? It may be faster to do everything by plastic and electronically. But there’a a huge risk in going down the cashless path. Erosion of liberty….A huge additional risk of a cashless society is that it further subjects everyone to the risk of total loss if our financial system is subject to a major and pervasive internet/computer hack….Who is benefiting from this policy? The betting here is that its a few monied oligarchs. Read More …
[Editor’s Note: The blog post below is based on a newspaper article written by David Dixon Lentz which originally appeared in the Ashland Herald Progress (which, unfortunately, has since gone out of business) in three parts in late 2015. It is about the very underappreciated Battle of the North Anna River fought just north of Read More …
Video about David Ricardo’s theory of Comparative Advantage. Discussion lead by David Dixon Lentz Read More …
Investments, Picking Stocks and the Efficient Market Hypothesis. ( Editor’s note: This blog post and video, first appeared on one of the “pages” appearing in the menu bar at the top of this website many months ago. We reprint it here because some of our visitors do not realize that there is also substantive content Read More …
In the video below, however, we engage in an enlightening and more contemporary discussion about a very important and controversial and powerful body that most folks know little about, the World Trade Organization (the WTO) Read More …
Well, here it is ! At long last we lined up and ran the Pittsburgh Marathon. We’ve been trying to run the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon since 2012, a year in which our weight reached into the 280’s ! We trained long and hard and this time we managed to avoid injuries Read More …
Here’s our latest installment. Just a little over a week to go until the Dick’s Sporting Goods 2019 Pittsburgh Marathon. This is for everyone but Senior runners can benefit the discussion by David Dixon Lentz who will attempt to finish the marathon at the age of 64 years, 10 months. Senior running, Read More …
Here’s the latest on our Dick’s Sporting Goods 2019 Pittsburgh Marathon Training. Only four weeks to go. Big challenges lie ahead. But we are still intending to line up and run it. In this video we talk about our latest physical and mental challenges and what we intend to do about them. Time is short. Read More …
Sorry for the delay in posting. Long story. Actually there are now only 27 days left as of April 8th. A lot has happened since I did the Two Months to Go video posted on this page. And not all of it is good, but we are hanging in there. Have already done most Read More …
BALANCE…Diet and Exercise: Caloric Miscalculation 12.15.18 Got on the scale this morning, Saturday December 15th. Sheer devastation. I weighed 202.4 pounds. This after a 199.pound weigh-in eight days ago. Worse, my objective was a flat 198. Now, admittedly I changed my feast date etc due to the forecast of a substantial snowfall for 12/09/18 Read More …