What most people think is true of baldness they cannot really explain or defend. I think it is the same with abortion. Unless you take ext...

Political crises in the Middle East are spilling across borders in the same way that the financial crises did in the West in '08. This...

Recently, a new astrological sign was announced. Sadly, no one seems to have updated the daily horoscopes with the inclusion of this 13th gr...

As I get older, I'm more convinced that our emotional energy creates our circumstances. I've seen it too many times for it to seem l...

Bad: increasingly employees face the same risk to future income as entrepreneurs. Worse: they don't share the same potential for returns...

Games provide flow but rarely provide meaning. Education provides meaning but rarely provides flow. Time to bring gamers into the classroom?...

We inherit goals. Personally, we find ourselves living within systems that have been designed by previous generations for their goals. Not j...

Egyptian government shuts down Internet - citizens forced to use hieroglyphics. On possibly related note, protestors build human pyramid. W...

On her wedding day, a bride is royalty. On that day, we make no pretense that everyone is equal. We don't revel in the uniform of jeans ...

In this era of globalization, quality of life is increasingly a function of corporate, not government, policy. 52 of the 100 largest organ...

Obama's going to win the future by out-innovating, out-educating, out-building rest of world. His new theme is competitiveness .  Appare...

It's not that I don't respect people in authority. I just don't respect them any more than any other people. It turns out that m...

Along the 2,000 miles of border between San Diego and Corpus Christi, there are about 6,700 gun dealers. All on the American side, of course...

Rush Limbaugh? Ha! Let's tackle him Retro product idea: a rotary dial cell phone. (Or is there already a smart phone app for that?) ...

Here is a fascinating piece on wealth distribution by UC Santa Cruz professor G. William Domhoff. To put this in perspective, imagine com...

“The purpose of life is to fart around. Don’t let anyone tell you different.” -            Kurt Vonnegut I like the idea of new year's...

More Americans are retiring in Mexico. It costs less to live there. Mexicans are still trying to come to the US for work. Jobs pay more he...

I'm a firm believer that the farther back one goes into history, the further ahead one can predict. This, of course, depends on understa...

I think it is time that federal budgets be translated into per person amounts so that we all can have some sense of perspective. The idea ...

I was recently with a friend who left me dismayed. He's become the guy whose opinions are not opinions but are, instead, "the way t...