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What’s driving the rise in school shootings?

By John Brown | February 19, 2018 - 10:34 pm |September 9, 2018 Blather
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Homicide rates are down in America, but school shootings are up. What’s going on? What’s driving this? Some say it’s guns. I have an hunch that I think deserves some study. Back in the 1970s we had 30 school shootings with a population of about 216 million. Today we have a population of 320 million. →

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The secret of Mormonism

By John Brown | September 30, 2017 - 9:35 pm |October 5, 2017 Blather
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If you want to understand the secret to Mormonism, something 99.9% of the world does not know, even though many think they do, read on. This last Tuesday I was at dinner with a number of wonderful coworkers. We were talking about religion and listening to the guy who helps set up our training environments →

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I’m done being Amazon’s fool

By John Brown | April 10, 2017 - 9:18 am |April 10, 2017 Blather
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Do you see this picture? This is Jeff Bezos laughing at John Brown. Because John Brown was a fool. Let me explain. When I sell my ebooks on Amazon for $2.99 to $9.99, Amazon charges me 30% of the price. I keep 70%. That’s a decent deal. I’m happy to do business with them as a →

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A simple calculator for how much home you can afford

By John Brown | March 6, 2017 - 8:27 am |March 6, 2017 Blather
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It’s March. Spring is here in most places. And this is when the house hunting season starts to get rolling. I used to moonlight as a realtor. I started from nothing, ran my own little gig, and did very well. Then I got a book contract, and there was no way I could do three →

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You vote: excerpt or full text?

By John Brown | December 28, 2016 - 10:01 am |December 28, 2016 Blather
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Readers, for the last year or so I’ve set the blog to show a summary of each post which you then click into as shown below. For the years before that I just showed the full text like you see now. I personally engage more with full text displays because I read as I scroll, →

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