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I learned this week that my mentor and good friend Walter Williams passed away a few days ago. He was a world-renowned economist, advisor to presidents, and a weekly columnist and an author of many books. He combined Philly street smarts with academia. An oil and water combination if there ever was one. He made it work.  He also subbed for Rush Limbaugh in what he titled "The Atilla the Hun Chair." Walt had a wicked and mischievous sense of humor. He loved being antagonistic, individualistic, and counter to Liberal groupthink. He was Libertarian and not Conservative. There is quite a difference. A true Libertarian essentially believes that do what you will within the constraints of protecting property and persons, just don't make another person pay for it. As a political philosophy, it is the only way I see out of gridlock.      We were friends basically because I grew up on the same street where he lived with his wife and daughter. We spent many a summer morning on...

I have the big three social media platforms on my iPhone, Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. I am actually in-person friends with 99% of my Facebook friends and knew almost all of them before adding them as friends on Facebook. Twitter is my next most used app, then Instagram. Like almost everyone, these apps have become a part of my life. Too big a part. Hence,  the Social Media Triangle. Feeling trapped in the Triangle and going from angle to angle repetitively. A nausea is usually the result.     For those of you too young to remember, back in the 1970's, there was a lot of press about the Bermuda Triangle. In these accounts were not just reports of legitimate nautical and meteorological dangers to shipping in this part of the Atlantic Ocean but suggestions that more diabolical forces were at work, not just treacherous water, winds, and weather. As if the Bermuda Triangle was a watery portal to Hades itself. Some region where evil forces lured victims into a triang...