Humans and Their Love/Hate Relationship with Science and Knowledge
Have you noticed lately that science and intelligent thinking have become items of disdain with a certain crowd, to the point where some even refer to branches of science as […]
Monthly Archives: March 2011
A Climate Hawk’s Rethinking of Biblical Armageddon
The catastrophic effects of the earthquake and resulting tsunami in Japan has once again catapulted the view of an “end times” apocalypse into the minds of many Judeo-christian believers. Like […]
Technology Can Now Make Me Smile, but Can it Help Me Find My Keys?
My friend Donna Cavanagh discusses how modern technology has and can make life much better, if only. I know people say miracles occur every day, and up to now I […]
Tidbits and Considerations III
A toast – to life? You have to have a sense of humor in most jobs just to make it through each day but California prison official Scott Kernan’s sense […]
Love Health Care Reform but Can’t Stand the Name?
Are we easily repulsed of what is good for us because we’ve been psychologically influenced to reject those things that feel emotionally “icky”? A new CNN/Opinion Research poll shows that […]
Death and Health Care Costs
Taking a rational look at one to alleviate the burden it imposes on the other. I read an interesting piece on Tax.com by economist Martin A.Sullivan. Sullivan has served […]
Trophy Hunters – A Cruel Mentality Carried Too Far
If the image above is unsettling for some, imagine what your reactions would be if that were a human on the ground instead of a massive Lion and the […]
Texas – The One Star State
Being relegated from a five-star status to a one-star rating is not something any entity wants to face but must deal with when confronted with an embarrassing classification for poor […]
GOP to American Public: “Don’t Think About It As We Ask You to Bend Over.”
The growing disposition to tax more and more heavily large estates left at death is a … policy [that] would work powerfully to induce the rich man to attend to […]
Tidbits and Observations
Keep ‘em poor, stupid and sick In a move by the backwoods legislators in Georgia, the state House passed an austerity budget plan that can only show what you can […]
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