LOOK AT MY NEW JET!....10/20/23

Jesse Duplantis, a famous televangelist with a net worth of around $50 million, said awhile back that the reason Jesus hasn’t returned yet is because his followers haven’t coughed up enough money.

He then implored people to dig deep into their wallets and share their hard earned cash with him so Christ's return could be hastened.

Duplantis preaches what’s known as the Prosperity Gospel, a brand of Christianity that supports the notion that rich people are favored by God and that the more money you have (and presumably the more you give to your favorite preacher like him), the more apt you are to be saved.

A few years ago Preacher Jesse was pummeled for begging his followers to help pay for a new $54 million jet he was eyeing.

This would have been his 4th private plane.

He defended himself by saying that he couldn’t fly commercial because those airplanes were full of demons.

ARE THEY WORTH IT?....10/19/23

I’m not much of a football fan so when I read that the head coaches at the University of Washington and Washington State University are among the 3 highest paid state employees, I cringed.

Between them, they take home close to $7 million per year.

By comparison, the president of UW makes a measly $880,000 while the football coach there earns $4.2 million.

That’s a difference of $3.3 million. So take that and divide by $31,000, which is what it costs to attend the school each year, and you come up with 107.

This means that over a hundred poor kids could attend the University free with the difference between the president’s salary and that of the coach.

While I don’t see anything wrong with football, it’s the priorities I struggle with.

Some say that winning teams increases enrollment and that offsets their salaries, which may be true, but how about a new rule that says that no college coach at any state funded university can earn more than the president of the school?

With a level playing field, thousands more across the country would be able to access higher education.

THE FUTURE IS NOW....10/18/23

40 years ago, my friend Bill Bakaleinikoff built a robot named “Robot Redford” that his assistant controlled remotely using a joystick while Bill spoke into a hidden microphone with the sound seemingly coming from the robot itself.

They hired out to fairs, conventions, corporate events, and private gatherings as a novel attraction.

Both man and machine made history in 1983 when the robot became the first ever to deliver a commencement address at a college in Maryland. All 3 of the major networks featured the story on its prime time news.

Now you can hire “Ameca”, a humanoid that can be pre-programmed to interact, sing, tell jokes, maintain eye contact, and converse all on its own.

Check it out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiTfe-ckD_g

Some day soon these "people" will be walking among us unnoticed.