Hurricane Sandy and Sustainable Economics

The anti-environment people continue to claim that the environmentalists are enemies of technology and market economics. This lie must be addressed now. I am an environmentalist; but I am neither against technology nor against market economics. I've worked in technology...

Environmentalism: The Rational Stance

There are any number of people who conflate environmentalism with Marxism. It is time that this myth, like many others, be put to rest.That someone is in agreement with one of Marx's stances - and Marx was an extremely voluminous writer who addressed many subjects in his work...

If Man Can Destroy, Then Man Can Create

Many people refer to any effort to work with genetics and nature as "playing God." These people however have nothing to say about man driving one half the nature's species into extinction or burning the Amazon. This hypocrisy has gone on for long enough. If man can destroy,...

Al Gore and Technological Progress

In his book "Earth in the Balance," Al Gore wrote that the people who weredenying the global warming in 1980s were going to be penitent later for whatthey had done. He made an error common to humanitarians: Of overestimating people's character. As it stands, these people...

Adlerian Simianism

With Alfred Adler, psychology took a turn toward the ridiculous and the atavistic. Adler claimed that people were driven by strife for the feelings of adequacy, and that anything else was a compensation for inadequacy real or perceived. With this claim, Adler...

America's Greatness and the Future of America

 For 18 years, between 1988 and 2006, I lived in America. I've been to places large, places small and places midsize. I've been to cities and countryside; suburbs and uninhabited areas; places ranging in their ideology from far left to far right. I've come to the...

Narcissism, Innovation, and the Free World

The American Psychological Association has removed the narcissistic personality disorder from the DSM manual. There have been commentators at New York Times claiming it to have been a mistake. In fact, that is one of the most intelligent decisions that American...

Sustain America's Greatness: Reject American Exceptionalism

When I was in high school, I confronted my European History teacher with a statement made in a book by former US Secretary of State Zbigniew Brzezinski that at the beginning of 19th century China produced as much steel as did England. My teacher ridiculed the statement,...

Ingenuity and Prosperity

The true root of prosperity is ingenuity and innovation; and it is in times that allow and value such things that wealth is actually created. The early 20th century - the time that America leapt from a backwater to world leader - was the time of ingenuity and...

American Character: Ingenious vs Paranoid

The character of Charlie Chaplin and the character of J. Edgar Hoover offers an insightful glimpse into the forces that were formative to American character of 20th century. With Charlie Chaplin, one sees...

CBC Series: A week without women

This certainly will be an interesting program to watch, as a small town loses all of it's women and the men have to fend for themselves, Kids and all.  Sort of reminds me of Al Bundy and his fictious No MA'Am...

Amsterdamned: Building a subway in the underground city

Amsterdam is known for (ahem) a few things by tourists, but should travelers let the smoke clear and turn off the red light for a moment, they might see parts of the city they'd otherwise miss. One of the...

Making the Grade: Timothy Bukumunhe of Sunday Vision

"Have you ever played the game of imagining that you were in someone else's shoes? That being said, this post puts me in the mind of an investigative journalist, who by the way just so happens to be writing for...

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