Perry Rod

CORONAVIRUS (Hold on. That name isn’t scary enough) COVID-19! This virus kills people! What percentage of people? A LOT OF PEOPLE! (Studies suggest between three and seven out of every 1,000 people. Five out of every thousand people is likely where it ends up – 95% of those deaths are of people over the age […]

From afar it seems like a dirty hippie ‘festival’ of freedom loving weirdos. Maybe that’s how it started. Then, at some point, they added sexuality – a ton of free open sexuality. Word got out. Now, sex and fire and incredible art and lights converge for nine days in a harsh moon-like environment away from […]

Men are attracted to pretty women. And women are attracted to masculine men. The voices of people who fall outside these categories has never been louder. But that doesn’t mean that they will overturn millions of years of human evolution through whining. On the surface, it may appear that the shaming of “toxic masculinity” is […]

The richest one percent of this country owns half our country’s wealth… One third of that comes from hard work, two thirds comes from inheritance, interest on interest accumulating to widows and idiot sons and what I do, stock and real estate speculation. It’s bullshit. You got ninety percent of the American public out there […]

At the age of sixteen, I took a bus to a local community college and enrolled in a course about stock market investing. The professor introduced himself as a millionaire and said he was just doing this one course for fun. I listened intently and tried to grasp what I could because I wanted to […]

She calls out to the man on the street, ‘Sir, can you help me? It’s cold and I’ve nowhere to sleep, is there somewhere you can tell me?’ He walks on, doesn’t look back. He pretends he can’t hear her. Starts to whistle as he crosses the street, seems embarrassed to be there. Oh think […]

Wanna know when I went from poor to wealthy? It was when I came to realize – at a deep level – what a joke money and wealth really are. All my early life I was convinced that money was so important. My family struggled over every dollar – coupons, savings, discounts, returns, arguments about […]