A simple physics concept, that systems tend to equilibrium. The natural state or outcome. A ball rolls down inside a bowl and oscillation back and forth while friction slows it, until it halts at the bottom, forces in balance. Why don’t we humans reach equilibrium? We continue to grow, consuming, increasing our numbers. Can’t we…
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The world should work longer
60 Minutes story on the European 35-hour work week. End of the story is that they are deciding to be more like Americans, who work 60 hour weeks without extra pay. Which form of stupidity discounts the uniquely wonderful reality of life to embrace the fools who have done the most to degrade it? Don’t…
New Politics
As I recall from my college political science class, politics is the legitimate exercise of the will of the people. As representative democracy in the United States has been hopelessly corrupted, we need new politics. What form shall that be? Direct democracy? Facebook polling? Pure plutocracy? I propose that we add to interest groups which…
Google Executive
I think it’s funny how The Google Executive in Egypt is credited with the revolution, and is identified as The Google Executive instead of as a citizen of a particular country. Google is a nation! Published with Blogger-droid v1.6.7
60 Minutes Assange Interview: News or Yellow Journalism?
Steve Croft’s interview of Julian Assange is full of barely veiled innuendo. Crofts acts as a self-appointed judge of Assange’s actions. This is not an unbiased interview. It is a low point for the quality of news reporting at CBS News. Faced with Assange’s defense of acting in the best tradition of American values, Crofts…