Joel Gross's Blog

Daddy lesson #2 of the key lessons I am teaching my kids: The most important decision you will make in your life is who you marry. No where you go to college, not what career you want, not what car you drive, not what hobbies you pursue, not who your friends are, not where you work, nothing else but who you marry.… read more “Daddy Lesson #2: The Most Important Decision In Life Is Who You Marry”

I have been teaching my kids what I have come to call the “Daddy Lessons”.

Daddy Lesson 1: The purpose of life is to have children. 

Every biology textbook says the primary drive of all living creatures is to reproduce. Every major religion strongly encourages having children, including the Bible which commands “Be fruitful and multiply”.… read more “The purpose of life”

I built a successful web design business with virtually no government oversight—so nothing could have prepared me for the shock of stepping into three of America’s most heavily regulated industries.

Sure, my web agency had standard taxes and basic labor laws, but we didn’t have specialized government regulators breathing down our necks. Back then, I thought standard rules were onerous.… read more “Trapped In The Regulatory Nightmare of Washington State”

If you piled the skulls of all of those murdered by the far left in one place, it would be both taller and longer and wider than the Rose Bowl stadium.

I woke up to a violent banging on my apartment door. I was still half-drunk from the night before, confused, and had no idea that opening that door would change my roommate’s life forever—or that I was about to accidentally hand him over to federal agents.

Here is the full story of the morning ICE arrested my good friend and roommate.… read more “ICE Raided My Home”

Socialism, in all its forms, sounds so reasonable, so appealing that for any young person with empathy advocating it is almost instinctive. That was my own past, and that of my mother- and father-in-law, as enthusiastic leftist college students in Beijing. They were actually there cheering in Tiananmen Square in 1949 when Mao Zedong declared the PRC founding to the assembled crowd and the world and jubilantly declaimed: “China has arisen”.… read more “The following story was told to me by someone on Reddit”

Our family has a new favorite restaurant in Moses Lake! The Hungry Heron is delicious! You can sit at their picnic tables right next to the docks with a beautiful water view. You can either boat up or drive up, plenty of parking for either vehicle. A true hidden gem. https://maps.app.goo.gl/jq1TJcZVxoURdrTs8?g_st=ac

I loved to party in college. My first two quarters were spent living in the dorms at UW and I threw too many parties and was on my final warning there when I left. I joined a fraternity and lived there for the next four quarters. All of the guys there loved to party and we drank an unbelievable quantity of alcohol.… read more “Alcohol during college”