Centuries ago, the West realized that the medieval church and pope might not be the true representatives of God. This century, the West will...

I don't know what you think to be a fair tax rate. It could be, though, like me you think that an income tax of 100% is too high. Outrag...

Put this on the list of things that should be on our lifetime learning list. The Emotional Competence Framework (taken from pp 26-27 of...

Debt still strikes a discordant note with Americans. This aversion to debt is a big reason for the Tea Party's popularity but debt is no...

A couple of weeks ago, my wife called to announce that she'd gotten two new students in her second grade class. "Oh," I repli...

In The Fourth Economy  I argue that a new economy is emerging, one as disruptive and transformational as the emergence of the Industrial and...

Last week I watched Romeo & Juliet at San Diego’s Old Globe Theater. It was considerably changed – new title, new actors, music and ly...

The bureau of Labor Statistics casually announced that wages in San Mateo are up 14.8% in the last year. That's huge. But a big reason ...

Last night there was another poll and another drop in approval for Republicans. LL Cool J was the rapper name adopted by James Smith. It...

Hard to imagine anything better than winning a Nobel Prize. If you want to get some sense of what a thrill it is, look at this reaction of...

Hard to believe that if either Obama or Boehner had the sense to send Iyeoka to ask for a "Yes" this whole impasse wouldn't be...

DC is going to screw this up. I hope I'm wrong but it seems to me inevitable. One, Obama will not negotiate.  There is a perfectl...

Obama could take a lesson from FDR and get more done by simply communicating more. In FDR’s era, the media was largely conservative. It...

It was late in life before I had a blinding flash of the obvious: I'm just one of about 300 million people in this country and I ought t...

Bernard was animated. "I think I've hit on something," he said in a voice tight enough with excitement that it nearly squeak...

Principled politics without compromise, or as they used to call it - war. To me it is a failure of process that budgets could ever become ...

This is the sort of thing that gives bloggers an inflated sense of self. So of course we post it.

Saturday, Oregon played UC Berkeley. If you google "Oregon football cal" you will get 36,200 results. By contrast, if you google ...

Intrapreneurship - creating a new business from within a business - is getting more attention. Or my friend Norman is just better at spottin...

The cashier at Trader Joe's confessed his pessimism about life to me, and the fact that he didn't believe in God. He said, "You...