Obama announces a historic failure of the Democratic party to reach a budget deal with Republicans. Why is he smiling about it? He and Reid announce a “historic” “compromise”. A compromise is when you want something and your opponent want something, and you agree to give and take. When what you want is to NOT…
Category: Politics
Equilibrium
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…
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…