What’s Wrong with People?

What’s wrong with people: greed, selfishness, violence, wars, lying, and all the rest, is just the over-the-cliff edge of human … More

Ideas that propel history

History is Propaganda with footnotes.-Je’ I’ve been watching the History of Western Civilization. Often such documentaries make me cuss mentally because … More

We Humans are Inventive Little Buggers

When you were a kid did you build things? Like throw a sheet over a table and call it your … More

Who put the empty milk carton in the fridge? Hitler!

What could be more natural than blame-storming? You notice something is wrong and you try to figure out who is … More

We Get By with a Little Help from Our Friends

Just a true story that happened yesterday which illustrates that most human beings are pretty decent. From my brother, Mark: … More

I Want My Crayons Back

When Queen Elizabeth asked her economists why none of them saw the crash of 2008 coming, they were taken aback … More

I promise you, this is an encouraging story

I promise you this is an encouraging story-just bear with me. Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake in 2010, which killed … More

Art Versus Politics

Art is seeing through and making what we see visible to the rest of humanity. Politics is the process of … More

Triumph of the Human Spirit: Symphony in Hell

Do you like music? Who doesn’t? I find great music a bit overwhelming myself. I once went to hear the … More