How to Vote

The choice among candidates or Propositions can be confusing at times. Hell, most of the time. I think the switch flipped when imperfections in a solution became more important than the solution. Then ads stopped telling you why you should vote for something, and instead focused on why you shouldn’t vote for that other something. [...]

How to Fix Capitalism

Remember the old Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups commercials that always had two people bumping into each other, where one had a chocolate bar and the other had a random jar of peanut butter? “Hey, you got your chocolate in my peanut butter!”, then “No, you got your peanut butter on my chocolate!” So an Occupy [...]

The Planetary Thermostat

Before humans knew how to create smog; volcanoes and cows had the job. Earth’s climate has always been in a state of flux, and the environmental systems on the planet always had a way to keep it in balance. I believe it is called homeostasis, which is Latin for “Al Gore hates sunny weather”. Problem [...]

September 11th

If a freak nation-wide thunderstorm dropped gumdrops and gold doubloons from the skies today, which 9/11 would be remembered next year? If a person breaks their spine in an accident, do we memorialize the day of the accident, or celebrate the day they learned to walk again? I know, “Never Forget”. And I don’t think [...]