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The Virtues And Vices Of Daffodil Season

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April 28, 2013August 27, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Between winter and spring intervenes, in many areas, the Daffodil Season. Here in Michigan, it is St George’s Day, April 23, as I write this, and the ground has turned green and the daffodils are out in force, but the […]

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No Place Like Home Conference – June 3, 2013

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April 1, 2013June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

This conference is being hosted by me and others to discuss the current state of subsidized home ownership in America, something that has been happening since the end of World War II but since the 1970s has been less successful […]

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“HELL YEAH!!”

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December 20, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Derek Sivers, who I have run across recently, says we should never say Yes unless it”s on the level of “HELL YEAH!!” and otherwise we should say No. As a philanthropist I can see this clearly. We must say No […]

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Where I’ve Been, And Why I Haven’t Posted In A While

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August 19, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I apologize to my Gentle Readers for my long silence.  I’ve just been on a long road trip around the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Bothnia; up from Copenhagen to the top of Sweden, then down through Finland, then […]

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Issue of Hybridization between Philanthropy and Investment

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June 28, 2012August 16, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

Another approach by David Bornstein to the issue of hybridization between philanthropy and investment from my recent post Philanthropy and Investment: The Distinctions Begin to Blur. Related: “For Ambitious Nonprofits, Capital to Grow” by David Bornstein at NYTimes.com

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Philanthropy and Investment: The Distinctions Begin to Blur

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June 12, 2012August 16, 2019
Author: Howard Ahmanson

I grew up believing that ‘philanthropy’ and ‘investment’ were two distinct things and not to be confused. They both serve the public, but in different ways; investment in business by [hopefully] producing worthy products at enough profit to make a […]

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Our Second Linguistic (Phonemic) Test

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May 8, 2012June 8, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

A few months ago we gave our readers a phonemic test about the distinction between pen and pin.  Now we will try our second, on a much newer shift that is obscuring a distinction that most English speakers used to […]

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New York City Transit’s Inconvenient Pricing

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May 5, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

New York City, much to my disappointment, has discontinued its transit one-day unlimited ride ticket.  [You can still get such a ticket for a week, but I’m never in town that long.]  What you can get is cards with $10.70 […]

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Urbanist Observations On A Bachelor Spring Break

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May 4, 2012July 3, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

[I apologize that I have not gotten pictures for this post, unlike the one about my San Andreas road trip two years ago. That I took with three friends; this one I went by myself. So I took very few […]

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Adding to my Swede jokes

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March 23, 2012July 5, 2018
Author: Howard Ahmanson

To add to my collection of Swede jokes, and of Ethnic Jokes that Really Happened, I heard this story: A gentleman of Swedish ancestry was being interviewed for the post of provost at an evangelical college. He was asked, “So […]

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The argument is that certain kinds of political ideas that are “hateful” are like pornography in that they are inherently tempting to fallen humanity. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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Of course, I’d call Critical Race Theory “hate speech,” too. What to do with that? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/trump-lies-free-speech.html

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