It's hard to choose which of Edison's inventions was most impressive. He had 1,093 US patents for products as varied as the light ...

Suddenly, everyone realized that they had all the stuff they needed and had heard all the stories before. But after a couple of weeks, bor...

There are only two questions Congress should consider: how do we create jobs and how do we raise living standards. It is absurd to take on...

Want to know one reason that daily papers face diminished readership? They focus on what the average person knows to be issues of diminishin...

Heisenberg's uncertainty principle adapted to politics: You can make sense to people or you can make sense of the world. The more that ...

The GOP gaffes come so quickly that something that may have garnered attention in a normal year gets completely overlooked. For instance, i...

Sounds similar to the wonderful Buckminster Fuller . And then I find this wonderful quote: "In the midst of winter, I found there w...

10 million hits for Jimmy Kimmel's video  in which little kids were told by their parents that they'd eaten all their candy. Hilario...

Bernard had been drinking. His eyes were watery and his grin sloppy. He was preparing for Thanksgiving with family. I was his designated d...

An old friend was born in Norway and is named Sveinung – but he goes by Sven. He shared this the other day: So I says, “Hello Marvin, ...

It's worth knowing where the rain falls and rivers run. But that needn't be the final word on the distribution of water. Irrigation ...

We can continue to try repairing the old economy or we can create a new one. Financial crises, stagnant wages, persistently high une...

This man I had was a simple, crude fellow - a character fit to bear true witness; for clever people observe more things and more curiously, ...

"Yes," he says, rather tentatively. "I'd like mine with more honesty, meaning, and love, please." The guy at the co...

How Greece could pay down their debt: sue all modern countries for patent infringement on ideas of democracy, science, philosophy .. O...

I've got a couple of theories about why no Republican front runner lasts for long.  Cain, Perry, Bachmann, Trump, Giuliani, Romney...

How about a virtual Halloween?  Go to a website where you get to see video snippets and still photos of every kind of costume - from cute...

If you want to get to New York, it does little good to reiterate that you should be in New York. The first step is knowing where you are and...

Saint Louis now has 11 world series championships. San Diego still has the same number as when baseball started. Yep. Zero. St. Louis has...

Herman Cain and Ron Paul are not conservatives. They are reactionaries. They do not want to preserver the status quo but instead want to ret...