The Nature of the Beast

So We Can Deal with It

Transition to Implementation of Basic Income

This short article contained a wealth of information for me. I have come Basic Income or UBI from the direction of social economics and technology. Understanding the rate of change driven by geometrically evolving technology was very interesting for…

Encouraging Small GMO Entrepreneurs

I’m glad I found this article. In Hawaii, as you note, our papaya industry was saved by genetic engineering. I understand the easy conflating of problems from late stage capitalism with GMO foods. Things become symbols and take on a life of their own. Your point on…

In my own battles here to build a case for extra-constitutional action to delay the inauguration for research into foreign influence, I sometimes refer to Trump as a bumbling bully who lucked into a political collapse, but he is even more dangerous because of that. Not being smart doesn’t stop him from being cunning. Cunning is a word we need to rediscover . . .

President Obama should call an emergency meeting of the leaders and senior members of the three branches of government to halt the inauguration until until a senior, bipartisan task force can be selected to evaluate all intelligence sources. It is clear that Trump may be seriously compromised by Russia. it is also obvious that he is incompetent but that may no longer be an issue.

This may not be the appropriate place to say it . . .

but this is not ‘all right’ and its not going to become ‘all right’. All the polite, well meaning folks of any color in neighborhood yoga studios who want to make up for this with love and positive thinking are hopeless. And I’m not even…

We Do Need a Wall

I don’t know about you right coast people but I’ve decided a wall might be a really good idea. Not that I have anything against…

The Quest for Profit Does Not Lead to Truth

How is the pursuit of profit connected to an objectively informed citizenry? This article does a very good job of covering all the ways that pursuit of profit drove the media to inundate an already misinformed plurality of the population with lies and…

The Hardness of Being Real

You provided an honest and precise reflection on how we have defined being civilized in America. We have…

More Than a Coincidence?

I’m actually thinking More Than a Reason but that is another old song that carried more meaning in its creation than it did in its content. It did have a hell of a hook, though. The tenuous link here requires a bit of backstory as a collection of key words and concepts.