Thomas Chi: 39 books

The Academy Award goes to Oscar Goodman after serving as Las Vegas Mayor from 1999 to 2011. His wife Carolyn Goodman became Mayor of Las Vegas in 2011 after receiving the Commitment to Education Award from the United Way of Southern Nevada in 2009. In the film about Las Vegas, Oscar Goodman is the...

Recently Marilyn Manson created a logo shaped like a swastika. Manson was dropped from his label Interscope. Many say it was because of a song called Pretty as a Swastika. The Interscope label warned Marilyn Manson. David Geffen owns Interscope Geffen via Geffen Records. David Geffen's parents were...

Oil dominates. Petroleum is involved in global trade. Oil is responsible for leadership, but the responsibility to produce petroleum wisely results in revolutions, war and that which defines history. Yet with all the importance placed on petroleum, teachers don't instruct students on the role...

The most talented Creative Directors in Silicon Valley and I met in a conference room to create the first advertisements for Adobe Illustrators version for Windows known as Illustrator 7.0. The slogan we picked after a night of North Beach pizza with Molson’s beer was “I Do Windows.” The Creative...

Zappos in Las Vegas led by Tony Hsieh has begun to welcome tech industries to the city. University students study the Zappos Business Model. Startups are taking notice as Internet firms plan to leave Silicon Valley for Vegas. Computer leaders arrive for the International CES in January and stay in...

Colorado USA dot co and Colorado Tax dot co are web portals. Portals are doorways. The computer was opening new doorways. Gateway computers came out. The military asked me to develop Maingate.com near the Navy bases in Jacksonville, Florida. Gates, doors, and I turned to developing with the term Portfolio....

Marilyn Manson describes the songs on his new album as Suicide Death Metal. Suicide rock encourages suicide. Is this Freedom of Speech protected by the United States Constitution? Is this the protection for citizens that the Founding Fathers had in mind? Will Marilyn Manson fans start to commit suicide?...

Warning: I wrote this letter to dozens of Jewish groups over a three week time period. I gave them my address, email, and phone number, which I never give out. Two people got back to me. The rabbi’s letter said it all. His response summed up the danger in the Jewish community with one line that...

The economy suffers. Talk of trade wars. Washington attacks China. China engages the United States. Chinese students graduate from high school. They enter into college. American students without college degrees suffer. American students direct their suffering at China. Anti-Chinese anger has grown in America.

American oil is going global as petroleum producers search for confidence, stability and certainty. Nations are hit with weak administrations that don't inspire investors, especially when investors face uncertain times in global financial markets. Stability is out pacing risk. New technologies in...

Each hour, global business leaders arrive to Las Vegas to take advantage of Nevada's tax incentives, especially Asian investors that buy real estate. The Chairman learn more about Nevada tax laws than citizens of the United States. Europeans worried about taxes arrive by plane each morning. More...

Meyer Lansky and the mafia, Simpon, Hilton, Jackson, Lohan, the lawyers in Las Vegas deal with clients in the global news. Lawyer Oscar Goodman became Mayor of Las Vegas. Hunter S. Thompson wrote the book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas after covering a narcotics conference with district attorneys...

Las Vegas casinos are full of tall tales during Republican debates with CNN's Anderson Cooper about Chicago's mafia run by Rahm Emanuel, President Obama's former Chief of Staff, but the truth surrounding the present elections flows because of the renewed fear of Chicago concerning the...

“She mowed over a family. Dead. They are all dead. Mother, father, brother, sister, baby. Sounds like that screenplay you mentioned. Nobody is surprised. She drank all day. Danced on stage. And drove out of the parking after she danced to go to a bar with a customer and drink some more. You know,...