CantandCandor

It’s been 17 years since the federal minimum wage has been raised, the longest span since the law was enacted in 1938. Also, when it comes to tipped wage, it’s as clear as a summer’s day that the responsibility for paying an employee a decent wage falls indisputably onto the employer, not the customer. Currently, there is a popular presidential campaign slogan stating “No tax on tips.” I’ve got a better one: No tips on bills. It’s high time the custom came to an end and frankly, the server profession with it.

The struggle of balancing the conviction in this temporal life with the sanctity of the eternal soul. “When will the sword’s blade sharp and bright Forth from the scabbard spring"

“The Astronomer-Poet of Persia,” Omar Khayyám, opposing the mullahs of his day (1049-1131).

The title of “housewife” or “stay at home mom” was then and is now unbefitting and degrading despite the fact that she is and has been a far more integral part of a functioning civilization. Do we call a lawyer a mere arguer? Or a captain, a sailor? Or a chef, a cook? No, the multiple facets of experience and knowledge demand a distinction in the title. How about maker of a home (homemaker) or more accurate—master of a home? Married mothers who transform a house into a home should get paid by tax dollars as a government employee under the title of Master Domicile.

Do humans have an original vice and virtue? It seems to me that we do (compulsion and disobedience), but let’s see if you agree. (00:45) Adam and Eve (01:20) Oscar Wilde (02:29) Socrates (03:58) Jesus of Nazareth (05:57) Martin Luther (08:35) The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (09:57) First Amendment of US Constitution (11:05) Henry David Thoreau (11:34) Slave Rebellion (12:02) Mahatma Gandhi (13:00) Martin Luther King (14:39) Braveheart (15:24) Compulsion (17:32) Parent/Child Relationship (20:38) Right and Just (21:40) Leo Tolstoy (22:12) Plato’s Theory of Reminiscence (24:13) Past Lives by Børns