By Richard Ray: Contrary to everything we seem to idolize in American culture, Greed is never good. So when the news was announced that a 26 inch Leonardo da Vinci painting of Christ titled “Salvator Mundi” sold for a record shattering $450 million with fees at auction by Christie’s, I could not help but […]
By Richard Ray: This is as much an open ended question to all you readers as it is a commentary? Are you always obligated to always bring something if invited to someone’s house for a dinner, BBQ, birthday party, etc? I am often amazed at the generosity and thoughtfulness of some that I clearly […]
By Richard Ray: The news of LiAngelo Ball’s arrest in China for shoplifting, along with two other of his UCLA teammates was literally only hours old when he began trending on Twitter. As the middle brother of the more well know Lonzo Ball of the Los Angeles Lakers and LaMelo Ball, still a high […]
By Richard Ray: #Me Too needs to be a movement. The sad truth is that more people than you could ever imagine have been victimized by sexual assault. For far too long people who have been the victims of sexual assault have lived in silence… Silence in part out of fear… Silence in part […]
By Richard Ray: With the very notable exception of cash, quality almost always rules over quantity. We increasingly live in a world where people measure self worth by the number of Facebook Friends, Instagram and Twitter Followers as well as Snapchat views they have accumulated. If you are using the Internet as a business […]
By Richard Ray: I do not even believe the headline of this article, but the subjectivity on this topic makes the outrageousness of my headline as true as anything else written. USA Today sports columnist Nancy Armour just wrote a piece titled “It’s Official: Lavar Ball is the worst sports parent ever.” I have […]
By Richard Ray: Excuse the cynicism, but I really have little hope that anything will change in the aftermath of the worst mass shooting in US history. 59 people have died with more than 500 injured, after Stephen Paddock unloaded on more than 20,000 unsuspecting concert goers. We are all horrified by the events […]
By Richard Ray: Waking up to the news of more than 50 dead and over 500 others injured by a lone gunman in Las Vegas is disheartening. Of course my heart goes out to anyone that was hurt or killed in this senseless tragedy as well as to their families. Unfortunately mass shooting or […]
By Richard Ray: On September 1st, 8 year old Dante Daniels from Sacramento, California was brutally beaten to death with a hammer by his mother’s ex-boyfriend. 23 years old Deandre Chaney Jr. was performing a criminal sexual act on Deandre’s 7 year old sister when the boy tried to intervene. The children were left […]
By Richard Ray: In 2012 Trayvon Martin, a 17 year old from Miami, visiting Sanford, FL with his father was killed by George Zimmerman. The self professed neighborhood watchman spotted Trayvon walking in the community and called police to report him as a suspicious person. He was advised by 911 operators to wait for […]
