It seems a truism that inland regions are less tolerant. People who live on coasts around ports have been continually exposed to a variety o...

Non Sequitur

Lou Dobbs has gone from an advocate for the laid-off American to role model. I've always been a little ambivalent about Lou Dobbs. I can...

Arrogance is just nature's way of telling you that you have stalled in the quest to realize your potential. If you've mastered somet...

We're on the first step towards turning healthcare into a right rather than something one needs to earn. I should feel wildly enthused a...

For all our understanding and tendency to pity "more primitive" civilizations, we don't do particularly well at ritual. And th...

The price of gold has soared as every other market has behaved more erratically. Apparently the thinking is that gold is a safer investment ...

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom. - Soren Kierkegaard “The true end of Man … is the highest and most harmonious development of his powers...

Of course the thing that no one admits is that the life of the child transcends our feeble attempts at parenting. Fortunately, the child is ...

Healthcare made it through the House with only 1 (that is one ) Republican vote. This discomfits some and is fuel for pundits who can now cr...

At first blush, it would seem as though my daughter did considerably better than me in her GRE scores. But then I realized that, given about...

Wouldn't it be fascinating if education actually gave students practice at transformation? Imagine that the first two years of high scho...

To provide a sense of certainty, the Catholics argued that the Church - most simply represented in the office of the pope - was inerrant and...

“The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to ke...

The Obama administration gets the honor of presiding over the biggest deficit in history. This year's deficit is an outrageous amount - ...

It's no so bad to impulsively ask someone on a date but it seems insufficient as a basis for marriage. Dick Cheney has criticized Obama ...

I had been traveling so incessantly that I didn't have time to don the costume I had planned for tonight's party: I was going to be ...

Rigorous empiricism eventually wears down any narrative needed to make sense of our world. No theory of the world seems capable of making se...

It is not just that they don't understand. You can't even begin to get them to understand just how much they don't understand.

Today at the client site, I kept walking by a poster promoting a presentation by a Nobel Peace Prize Nominee. It seems to me that this would...