Pelted by a perpetual hail of electrons fired through a cathode ray tube, the pixels on my PC monitor feed me a generous intellectual bounty of words and images emanating from virtually infinite points dotting the globe. Enabling me to...
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11 December 2006
In the Wizard of Oz tale, the Tin Man is in search of a heart to make himself more human. Our technology faces a similar challenge.
Not only has our intellectual capacity for invention shot way ahead of our physical and...
Not only has our intellectual capacity for invention shot way ahead of our physical and...
08 December 2006
The slithery junior senator from Illinois, Barack Obama is ensuring himself a steady political diet of publicity by refusing to take his name out of consideration as a possible candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008....
06 December 2006
“What kind of a society isn't structured on greed? The problem of social organization is how to set up an arrangement under which greed will do the least harm; capitalism is that system.”
---Milton Friedman
What...
---Milton Friedman
What...
06 December 2006
The lead-up to the invasion of Iraq has become notorious in the
annals of American journalism. Even many reporters, editors and
commentators who fueled the drive to war in 2002 and early 2003 now
acknowledge that major media routinely...
01 December 2006
Just as local cities have adopted environmental and wage laws that exceed
federal standards, maybe it's time for local initiatives protecting the
sanctity of the vote. We've been seeing electoral abuses and manipulations
since the Bush...
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