Doing Away With Punk Way Of Life

I say with no hesitation that I hate punks, whatever their race or ethnicity. The reason is that I have known a number of women from the punk side of town, and I have known what the males on the punk side of town like to do to them. I am advocating a three-pronged strategy...

Kevin Federline Syndrome and Brittney Spears Syndrome

There are any number of ways in which one can be a jerk, and some of these have been catalogued and others haven’t. The form of which I am speaking right now has not been catalogued; but it has happened in enough situations that I believe it to be commonplace. I refer to...

Structure of the Universe

The structure of the UniverseContained in human chestThe orderly and mutinousThe motion and the rest From single singularityThat no one can explainCreates the flying galaxiesAnd all that they contain. The magnetism and gravityThe forces weak and strongEternity and...

Suggestions for Obama's Second Term

Now that President Obama has won re-election, it becomes possible to think of what can be accomplished during a second term. These are some suggestions I have as someone who has studied and thought about these issues for a very long time. Taxes - the irresponsible Bush tax...

Electoral Lessons: Statesmanship vs. Jerks

There can be many lessons drawn from this election; but perhaps the most important of these lessons is that, in American politics, it no longer pays to be a jerk. Rick Santorum - one of the biggest jerks in the history of American politics - fell by the wayside in the...

Obama, Clinton and Federal Debt

People are rightfully worried about the federal debt. In recent speeches, President Barack Obama has promised to tackle the debt in his second term in office. When he came into power, America was in the middle of an economic collapse. He stopped that collapse by bailing out...

Checks and Balances vs. Communitarianism

In most of history, most of oppression was done by the governments. In America however that is not the case. The American government (at least under Obama and Clinton) is nowhere close to being a force of oppression. There are however entities in America that are...

Costs and Benefits of Regulations

A lot of candidates in this election are inweighing against the regulatory burden. Being tight with several entrepreneurs, I agree that over-regulation is undesirable. There is however a reason why regulations are in place, and not all of it is government overreach. I think...

President Obama's Vision for America

(CNN) -- For the past few days, all of us have been properly focused on one of the worst storms of our lifetimes. We mourn those who were lost. And we pledge to stand with those whose lives have been turned upside down for as long as it takes them to recover and...

Anti-Environment = Anti-Human

Some of the global warming deniers have been claiming a pro-environment stance to be "anti-human." This mentality has to go and it has to remain gone. It's not, nor was it ever, humanity against nature. It is humanity with nature. The person who militates against nature...

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...

Confronting Republican Lies

The Republicans claim to be the party of responsibility, family, ethics, patriotism and prosperity. All of these claims are lies. The Republicans have put America's children $10 trillion in the hole - $6 trillion of this under Bush, whose irresponsible and unneeded tax cuts...

Political Correctness and Beautiful Women

One argument that I've heard from the practicioners of political correctness is that a beautiful woman can't also be a good human being. As far as these people are concerned, if someone is not beautiful then nobody else has the right to be beautiful, and someone being...