A Critical Look at Ayn Rand
“She was neither fully a philosopher, nor fully a novelist, but something in between the two—the characters in her novels are not creatures of flesh and blood but opinions on legs, and her expository prose has the quality of speechifying.” – Ayn Rand: engineer of souls “Maybe one reason why free-marketeers idolise Ayn Rand is [...]
PDF Let Us Burn The Koran And…
I posted the video below in response to Pastor Terry Jones who threatened to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, 2010. Much to my surprise, the video received over 5,000 views. The subsequent videos were made to explain the meaning of the video (several viewers asked me to discuss the meaning of the [...]
The Psychology of Security
“Security is both a feeling and a reality. And they’re not the same.” “The reality of security is mathematical, based on the probability of different risks and the effectiveness of different countermeasures. We can calculate how secure your home is from burglary, based on such factors as the crime rate in the neighborhood you live [...]
Your Middle Class Existence Has Now Come To An End. Hopefully You Enjoyed It While It Lasted.
Our popular conception of history is often at odds with the reality of history. For example, we often think that history is comprised of periods of peace punctuated by war. That is why we are often “surprised” when war breaks out in some part of the world. The reality, though, is that history is war [...]
News From The Not Too Distant Future
Mega Merger! Google & Verizon Become Googizon Being hailed as the most significant corporate merger of the century, Google, Inc. and Verizon, Inc. have merged and will now be called Googizon. According to Googizon spokesperson Ishiro Honda, Googizon will be able to provide all of the top web and technology offerings for a fixed monthly [...]
There Is No Time
Arianna Huffington. The progressive movement needs you badly. They need you now. Your website gets an enormous amount of traffic. Please dedicate your entire website to your new book Third World America.1 Please get other progressive voices on the website. We need Ed Schultz. We need Tom Hartmann. And if we have to beat him [...]
God Bless The Republicans!
Whatever your thoughts may be concerning the ground zero “mosque,” what should be of greater concern is that the Republicans have, once again, found an issue that foments this new family value of “being angry at each other.”
Our Economic Crisis
A brilliant analysis of our current economic crisis. The information below is so good that I had to add it after this post went live. • 61 percent of Americans “always or usually” live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007. • 66 percent of the [...]
Are You A Terrorist? Then I Have The Gun For You!!
Under current federal law, the FBI has no authority to block the sale of firearms or explosives to individuals on the terrorist watch list. That means the federal government can’t stop gun sales to the same people it thinks are too dangerous to get on an airplane. According to the Government Accountability Office, people on [...]
Arizona Immigration Law
Text Below Added April 29 …Arizona is more than a laboratory for intemperate times: this place is a warning of what a state can look like when it’s run by talk-radio demagogues and their television cohorts. The crackpot laws owe their genesis to the crackpots who dominate Republican politics, who in turn cannot get elected [...]
Elizabeth Warren: The Supreme Court Justice We Deserve; The Supreme Court Justice We Will Never Get
Arianna Huffington said it best: “I think Elizabeth Warren — especially if we can clone her so she can also run the Consumer Protection Agency — would be a great nominee. A Harvard Law professor, an expert on bankruptcy law, on many of the ways in which economic policies are impacting the middle class, exactly [...]
Pages From My Notebook
Some days I just get tired of having to push myself. I wish I could just wake up and, voila, no more adhd! ————————————————————- Oh!! Here’s a fcuking eye opener. I have a client who is definitely ADHD. They are god damned psychotic! They drop off the face of the earth and then, blam! they [...]
DeLaVerita Reports: Does Obama Have The Political Viagra To Keep It Up?…And Other Items of Interest
On a regular basis I will be providing these brief reports which I have edited for quick consumption. Think of them as intellectual nuggets: small, tasty, bite-sized and (hopefully) satisfying. The full-course intellectual “meal” — i.e., the heavily researched and reflective pieces — will be posted at another time. Those may be based, in part, [...]
