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Nearly everyone has had the experience of being micromanaged at work, and it is a very oppressive work situation. Micromanagement exhibits lack of trust on the part of your supervisor, reduces productivity, and above all, is highly stressful and counter to human nature. How would you like it if your private life – your day-to-day affairs – were micromanaged? I suspect you would violently balk at the idea. Yet, it is coming. In some parts of the globe, one piece is already in place, that of the Social Credit Score introduced by and managed by the government of China. The...

This is no kidding...we take roll call before we go anywhere in the Big Red Bus of Love. Some of you may find this a foreign concept. Many of you probably can't decide whether to laugh maniacally or throw up at the thought of the necessity of it. And a precious few of you are thinking, "Well, duh!" True story: On a recent activity/errand night, I had four of the kids with me. We dropped Gracie off at the YMCA so she could go to her water aerobics class, and then I fled the parking lot...because all the Zumba-ites were...