Category Archives: Reference and Education

Natural Disasters – New Orleans

Nature has struck once again and while many of us sit in our dry snug homes, hundreds of thousands of people are without a roof over their heads, food for their kids or a place they can call home. Many of the most heavily hit in New Orleans and surrounding miles are among the poorer […]

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The Math of the Aftermath

Comedian Chevy Chase, when he anchored the first Saturday Night Live faux-news desk, had a running joke that satirized, post-mortem, the endless medical updates provided by the public relations machine of a dying dictator… “Here’s a bulletin from Spain: Doctors are reporting that Generalissimo Francisco Franco is holding fast in his valiant fight to remain […]

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Nationalism

This article discusses how governments seek public endorsement of their policies through Nationalism. In speeches and on Vietnam memorials it always states that the soldiers, who died, died for our freedom. This is really strange and illogical. We actually lost the war. Did the victorious “Charlie Cong” storm America and enslave us? Once we left […]

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National Animal Identification System is a Bad Idea

I am resolved to the fact that government legislation will continue to erode away at our freedoms. Government likes to paint itself as the lamb, but usually is the wolf. It’s the rules of necessity to protect us from certain harm. Take for instance the latest hot topic in farming, NAIS, National Animal Identification System. […]

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The Macro and Micro Worlds of Thea Alexander

Thea Alexander wrote a book called 2150 AD, originally published in 1976. She describes a fascinating world that includes two parts consisting of the Macro World and the Micro World. In the Macro world there was harmony, cooperation, and everyone respected everyone else and did their best to be good and kind to each other. […]

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The Inertia of Power

I hate it when Saddam Hussein gets proved to be right… Buried in all his pre-invasion bluster was a promise that Iraqis would give the Americans ‘another Viet Nam’ if they tried to occupy the country. To many, this sounded like just another empty threat, but I took note when he said it. The reason […]

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