15 Articles

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
War
(4 comments) This past summer's supposed 'debates' showed how far some people are willing to go to destroy discussions that should be the ground of a democracy. The 'some people' may be a minority but in a world presented to us by the Media mayhem has a louder voice than we the people.

Saturday, September 5, 2009
Eight Months Into a new Administration -- What's Next?
We are in the eighth month of a new Administration, a new president, and not much has changed. We still wage some visible and a number of invisible wars. The loudest war is between the two parties —yes, in America we define “democracy” as a two party system. As somebody said, both parties have slid to the right

Saturday, November 29, 2008
Interregnum means between reigns
(2 comments) Why this interregnum between election and assumption of power? In this dead season -- I don't know where lame ducks come in --

Saturday, November 1, 2008
for your entertainment -- a wider perspective
energy, entropy, Life, time, Man

Thursday, October 9, 2008
Money
Once there was a saying You have to have money to make money. Now it is: You must make money with borrowed money. That feels unreal to me, somehow dishonest. How about revamping the financial system so that it only deals with what there is, and not with what they wished there were. Borrowing is really gambling on the future, isn't it?

Monday, September 22, 2008
A Modest Proposal
(5 comments) We live in the time of lies. The Media have taught us that the slide from advertising to propaganda is really just a matter of meaningless words. The Media also demonstrated that a lie, said with conviction & repeated a few times, becomes accepted fact. We, the people, accept that where there is smoke there must be fire. Oh yeah? And yet we humans are more confused than ever. We drown in the lies from the right & the left

Thursday, August 21, 2008
WHAT THERE IS - IS ALL THERE IS
(12 comments) Sustainability, "why worry about the price of oil, why not consider how to do without?"

Thursday, April 24, 2008
We the People?
(1 comments) perspective on primaries and elections and where that leaves We the People

Thursday, February 14, 2008
These Times, February 2008
(1 comments) The indigenous people I knew thought important decisions should include the will of all people. It sometimes took a while, but eventually, all agreed on a certain course. That system worked to keep peace for long times. And, incidentally, even in Muslim countries, women were never excluded in times of considering, thinking about, talking about, important issues.

Sunday, June 10, 2007
Questons, questions
questions we don't ask -- but should ask, for our own survival

Saturday, March 24, 2007
Sailing to the Moon
(2 comments) when we, humans, create a world that is not doing well, we -- and others -- feel the stress, making us more extreme. How are we dealing with these manmade stresses.

Tuesday, October 10, 2006
LOCKS & KEYS
Our entire nation--the world--seems to be locked into the idea that better locks give us better protection. Yet, anyone looking at how we live our lives must see that all these multiple, ever more sophisticated locks, don't do much to protect, only make us more paranoid. Thinking "security" makes life unnecessarily difficult and complicated. We talk about protecting our liberty but it is our freedom we sacrifice.

Saturday, July 15, 2006
Politics Is Not Enough
(1 comments) how to change, repair, go in a different direction

Thursday, June 8, 2006
CONUNDRUM; Climate Change, world culture and "democracy."
(2 comments) Where western culture, the WTO and globalism go, people essentially lose their identity, their religion, their values. That is a worldwide story. Everywhere westerners have settled, or even visited on a regular basis, cultures and languages have been swept away, leaving people living in a void, between partially remembered song and wisdom, and the crude materialism of western so-called culture.

Monday, April 24, 2006
War on Terra
(4 comments) We like to think that we lifted ourselves up by our bootstraps. But in reality, of course, we grabbed more of what we wanted by stepping on the backs of others. We have a myth that we conquered an empty land; but of course it was not empty at all. Abusing slaves and other humans by force of gunpowder is bad enough, but the consequences of abusing the land we stole will turn out to be a greater catastrophe.