Provocative Future

This is the fourth installment in a series of posts describing my experiences at a small town Republican meeting in Texas. Previous posts a...

This is the third installment in a series of posts describing my experiences at a small town Republican meeting in Texas. Previous posts ar...

This is part of a continuing series. The agenda topic for this meeting in June 2013 was the 2nd Amendment, but you know they couldn't l...

A few days after the election in November, I went to the local county Republican meeting. It was a small town gathering near Austin Texas,...

A recent ABC News / Washington Post poll show that 53% of Americans support same-sex marriage, and surprisingly even a higher percentage of...

A really great summary , from an economist who was quoted by climate change skeptics, on why they are wrong on all their points.

In this TED Talk given back in 2005, Yochai Benkler talked about how the development of "social production" is the long term shi...

There was an interesting article recently in Forbes titled The Rise of Developeronomics by Venkatesh Rao. It talks about software develope...

" The bottom line is that cognitive-enhancing pills are a reality and people are using them.  "   That quote came from an article ...

David Korten, an economist, author, and former Professor of the Harvard Business School, was asked why the   Occupy Wall Street   movement i...

Roles models can be a good thing to have. Hero worship can be problematic though. Now that the hero worship of Steve Jobs has died down, let...

I've read various predictions that the majority of Americans will finally approve of same sex marrige sometime before 2020, with the yea...

I attended a small public discussion about WikiLeaks and the benefits of transparency.  Many of the people hadn't previously given these...

I recently attended a book discussion of "Ancestor's Tale" by Richard Dawkins.  The book is an excellent discussion of the evo...

I was listening to a conversation about efficiency in the U.S. economy the other day. It’s actually amazing how far below our actual capabil...

On May 6th 2010, the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the NY Stock Exchange dropped by 1,000 points in a matter a minutes in an event than h...

When I was much younger, I recall that refuting the Theory of Relativity was a favorite pastime of various crackpots and clowns. The Nazis e...

This could be really big. I just heard the word that BP's best hope at stopping the oil flow, the "Top Kill" method, has fai...

I’ve spent some time reading and thinking about the recent Supreme Court Decision involving Citizens United. I’m not one to typically give...

I recently came across a commentary written by Brian McLaren about the concept of economic recovery. He brings up some interesting question...

I recently attended the “Green 2010” conference at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook NY. It was the latest in a series o...

A recent article in the NY times commented on the lack of any big mega-projects being undertaken. The article points out that in the past w...

When people discuss the characteristics and possible reforms of capitalism and free markets, they have a tendency to use these two terms int...

A friend of mine "went Rogue" in a local book store recently, and as a public service decided to re-shelve Sarah Palin's book ...

I attended Catholic Mass while visiting family members this weekend, and I was intrigued by the following statement from the pulpit: “this i...