6 Articles

Sunday, August 9, 2009
An Open Letter to Rep. Bobby Bright
I keep hearing rumors that Rep. Bobby Bright is a "Blue Dog" Democrat who might qualify as a "centrist populist" candidate for higher office. So here are four "hard questions" I'd like him to answer in public to help me decide if he deserves the support of ultra-progressives like me. If he ignores these questions, I'll write him off,but if he does answer, his explanations of why he says yes or no should help me decide.

Thursday, July 2, 2009
The Edges of War
United States military policies since the end of the Cold War make more sense if you assume that we have secret military technology that's about half-way between what the government admits we have and the claims of some of the popular conspiracy theory sites. We don't have advanced extraterrestrial technology learned from studying crashed UFO's, but a number of our own inventions are pretty frightening in their own right.

Saturday, May 30, 2009
Truly Balancing the Economy
(14 comments) This is my response to OEN's solicitation of proposals on how the economy can be run more progressively. My suggestion is to amend the US Constitution to include a "Bill of Property Rights" which would put effective checks and balances on economic power and end the shallow struggle between "Socialism" and "Capitalism" which now keeps our whole society from functioning both efficiently and justly on all levels.

Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Internet Censorship and the Third Inalienable Right
(4 comments) Mounting political opposition to specific laws intended to impose censorship on the Net is an obvious first step, but I feel that it's actually more important for all progressive-minded people to advance the Information Revolution on the practical level. In other words, to use the Net for learning, teaching, trade, and negotiation as much as possible, and to resist efforts to stop us from doing these things any way we can....

Sunday, May 10, 2009
Could the "Pig Plague" Turn BLACK?
(15 comments) If the 2009 Swine Flu virus starts hopping back and forth between swine and human beings,as now appears to be happening, this would turn what a friend of mine facetiously labeled the "Pig Plague" into a global disaster even worse than the "Spanish Flu" of 1918-1919 -- one that might kill the same number of people during a given period of time as the "Black Plague" of the Middle Ages did...

Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Men of Pieces
The author's comments on a recent Oakland funeral, told from a radical futurist perspective on police-community relations.