Heat Tolls, and It Tolls For Thee...
Moderation in face of probable death if one persists in laying supine, is itself immoderate.Global warming was nice enough a concept, but planetary heating, much less so. Really good manners sometimes...
View ArticleStimulating the Erroneous Zones
Stimulating bankers and Afghans, after stimulating Khamenei, is the change we can observe, the more of the same change we observed before: all the change go to Goldman Sachs, none go to the People....
View ArticleFlying The Coffin Corner
The world economy in general, and the economy of the USA in particular, is in danger of flying into the coffin corner. I sketch paths towards this new notion in this essay that most people will find...
View ArticleProgressively Back To the Bush? (Stimulating the Erroneous Zones II)
In his New York Times editorial of July 9, Paul Krugman observes that: "...before Inauguration Day some of us worried that the stimulus plan would prove inadequate... The bad employment report for June...
View ArticleConsciousness Springs From Quantum Physics.
And now for something completely different! Contrarily to what a casual observation of Washington DC would suggest, intelligence and consciousness are natural processes.I advocate that they are as...
View ArticleDENYING HISTORY, TORTURING MORALITY?
Historical reasons are gathered to support Attorney General Holder's effort to prosecute those who have advocated and committed torture.Those suspects seems to have been deemed, so far, too important...
View ArticleWhereof One Cannot Think, Thereof One Must Not Kill.
IT IS HARD TO WIN A WAR THAT IS ALREADY PHILOSOPHICALLY LOST.***Abstract: There is no valid philosophical and political reason for the West to fight the war in Afghanistan, in the philosophical context...
View ArticleWhat Happened To Goodness?
Good and his abbreviation, God, are civilization dependent. As civilization change, so do they. The recent, multi-decades long anti-civilizational dive in the USA has changed the definition of worth....
View ArticleToo Sick To Care?
The economy is not fundamentally about profiteering, it's about managing a house in common.That there is even a debate about financing health care is a symptom of acute civilizational failure. The...
View ArticlePlutocracy Reigns Best Over Idiocy.
Idiocy in the media is no accident, but a deliberate strategy of the plutocracy to incapacitate the People's mind to better enslave it.
View ArticleWhy Health Cares For Profits Not
Before inventing the Nobel Prize in economy, economists should have consulted philosophers to find out what the subject was all about.Democracy is not just about one man one vote, it is also about...
View ArticleConcepts Matter In Math, Physics, Economics.
I use the physicist Faraday to demonstrate that concepts matter.The question of the nature of mathematics may sound unduly abstract to those who err in the real world, searching for meaningful...
View ArticleWhy Plutocracies Destroy Their Nests.
Plutocracies do not just exploit. They destroy the very source of their power, the People that let them rise. Such is their nature. This happened for the Mayas, it happened for Rome. This is on its way...
View ArticleCorruption Civilization.
Whether employment comes from the public sector or the private sector does not matter. What matters is that the jobs have public utility. Corruption ruins public utility. Some ways of doing things in...
View ArticleSome Big American Myths Bite Dust
The USA is encumbered with myths, which have serious impact on the economy and the sociology, not just of America, but of the entire planet. We destroy three of them. And we point out a more general...
View ArticleHealth Scare Justified?
Frank Rich wonders: Is Obama Punking Us? As he summarizes it: "While it’s unlikely that the chorus of President Obama’s most strident doomsayers will be proven right, there is growing cause for concern...
View ArticleBig Government Yes, But Only If Justice Is Strong
The USA is lost in an entanglement of corruption, and the government is making the situation worse.The paradox is that Big Government saved the economy from a death spiral, so far. That is a European...
View ArticleEvolution As Intelligent Design
The Gods correspond to the intelligent design of our brain evolution made, always asking for causes, and providing answers, even when there are none at first sight. This thirst for answers has...
View ArticleTeaching Nazism At Harvard
Niall Ferguson used his clout to try to discredit Obama's economic stimulus. Some believe that Ferguson’s work is highly original. But it is enabled by Godwin rule: mention Hitler, and you have lost...
View ArticleHealth Care Reform's Top Saboteur
Obama has made sure that significant health care reform will fail. Since this time he could not at all hide his pro-plutocratic maneuvers behind Paulson, Bush, and colossal fake naivety, he devised a...
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