In two earlier posts, I concluded that the medieval church became evil. This matters because the medieval church is still a model for instit...

On a flight home the other day, I put down my book (Michael Connely's Scarecrow) about an investigative reporter losing his job to watch...

It had been too long since I'd met my favorite senior citizen siblings for lunch. Maddie was the closest thing I knew to an idiot savant...

As Obama tries to win over the Republicans on his health care reform, it is worth remembering how the votes in Congress fell when Clinton pa...

Reading In Search of Bill Clinton: a psychological biography, there is an account of how he helped facilitate the peace process in Northern ...

Recent poll reported : 18 percent of self described conservatives believe Obama is the Antichrist. It is hard to imagine this sort of opinio...

The medieval church may have been a necessary evil in the progress of the West, but it was still evil. It’s worth reviewing how that happene...

I’ve taken my shots at the medieval church. Anyone who knows history has read of the atrocities. Heretics were burned at the stake, scientis...

"You lie!" Joe Wilson hollered out in the middle of Barack Obama's address to Congress. Talk of racism quickly emerged. People...

My wife Sandi teaches second graders in one of the poorer parts of San Diego County. To demonstrate their serious approach to academics, the...

I recently read Erik Larson's Devil in the White City, a wonderful account of the Chicago World's Fair in 1893. The World's Fair...

Those of you offended by irreverence may want to skip this post, but I'm starting to get seriously annoyed at the deification of the dea...

This from the New Yorker:

Health care reform is complex . Blog posts are simple. Hence, I might have a compatibility issue as I tackle this topic. I have to admit tha...

I feel like I just have to comment about today's date. 9/9/9. There. I commented. Somedays I really love not having an editor.

Yesterday, I was listening to live music from various friends and acquaintances, a delightful concert that featured about a dozen acts. So m...

Apparently, writing a blog is like wearing a pocket protector: proof that one has not kept up in reading the memos that inform us about what...

Obama will give a speech 8 September in which he plans to encourage school children to become black socialists. The right is outraged. I won...

One of my most awkward moments teaching seminars came in an event that included a contingent from a chain of pawn shops. The "finance...

Compared to 1945, today's GDP is 65X larger consumer debt is 444X larger the value of mutual funds is 12,400X higher GDP measures income...