Clean Energy and System Purism

Much of the 20th century revolved around a conflict between capitalism and socialism. On both sides there were many people willing to die for either system. My response is that a system - any system - is a tool and nothing more than a tool; and the point is not to be a purist...

The True Character of Senate Republicans

The Senate Republicans have used a filibuster to block President Obama's veteran jobs bill. This shows the true character of Senate Republicans. In recent campaigns, both Democrats and Republicans have sung praises to veterans. But only the Democrats attempted to do...

Good Things and Moderation

The proponents of doing everything in moderation frequently like to assert that there is too much of a good thing. Is this a rightful analysis, and is it universally applicable? Clearly there are some good things of which there can be too much. Food is an obvious example....

Kindness-Supporting Beliefs and Meanness-Supporting Beliefs

Kindness and meanness is a matter of both choice and genetics, but with choice playing a larger part over the long run. Some people are naturally more mean and others are naturally more kind. At the same time, any given person can be kind and mean at different points in their...

Russia and China: Who is more worthy of respect?

 In 1985, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union elected a noble-minded leader named Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev promised to make the Soviet Union more humane and democratic. His reforms - glasnost (political openness) and perestroika (economic reconstruction) - became...

Qualities in Relationships

A behavior I've observed on the part of a number of men is going for women who have one set of qualities but expecting in a relationship an opposite set of qualities. Specifically, they are attracted to artistic free-spirited women, but want in a relationship a traditional...

Finite multiverse or designed universe; you choose reality

According to multiple award winning scientist George Ellis, we presently have a choice between views of reality: a finite self-generating multiverse a purposefully designed life-generating single finite universe If you look carefully above, the keyword common to both...

Regionalism and Freedom to Roam

Regional autonomy is conducive to liberty, but with a caveat. In a large and diverse country, different people will see things in different ways and will prefer different ways of life. With different regions having different values and different lifestyles, regionalism gives...

Are you sure that you are not better off being single?

What value resides in staying in a relationship that is suffocating you?  For what valid reasons would you choose to be involved in a relation that is a total negation of what you are?  Every single time you say “Yes” to your partner when in reality you want to...

Psychology and Religion

There are people involved in therapies of different kinds who believe it impossible to be a good person except through application of their therapies. This is as ridiculous as the Christians stating it impossible to be a good person except through Christ. There have been...