Disagreement A couple of days ago I got into a pretty intense disagreement with a very close friend. Of course, people disagree all the time.  That’s not news, or noteworthy.  The details of our friendship aren’t important to this show. What is important is the thing we disagreed about, and what it says about our…

In an online conversation I saw this:  “President Obama is THE WORST EDUCATION PRESIDENT EVER!!”  I have to admit I was rather confused by this.  Nevermind the horror of the Reagan administration, when the government tried to declare ketchup a vegetable in order to save money on school lunch programs.  Nevermind the horrible effects of…

I don’t just want you to follow me.  I want you to share me. Why?  What makes me worth sharing? I’m trying to change the world while barely managing to pay my minimal bills – rent, food, web hosting.  With nothing but a camera and an attitude, I’m teaching people how to think clearly again,…

I don’t just want you to follow me.  I want you to share me. Why?  What makes me worth sharing? I’m trying to change the world while barely managing to pay my minimal bills – rent, food, web hosting.  With nothing but a camera and an attitude, I’m teaching people how to think clearly again,…

This is not an easy situation for me to comment on. There are a lot of reasons for that, which I’ll explain as we go on, but first I must explain why I’m bothering, because even as I write this, I’m going back and forth in my mind as to whether I should. Unfortunately, I…

This is not an easy situation for me to comment on. There are a lot of reasons for that, which I’ll explain as we go on, but first I must explain why I’m bothering, because even as I write this, I’m going back and forth in my mind as to whether I should. Unfortunately, I…

So the relentless buzz over the last week or so in tech and social media circles has been Google’s new platform, Google Plus.  Some say it’s the “Facebook Killer,”other that it will replace twitter, Still others that it will destroy Skype. Personally, I don’t think it will “destroy” any of those existing services, at least…

So the relentless buzz over the last week or so in tech and social media circles has been Google’s new platform, Google Plus.  Some say it’s the “Facebook Killer,”other that it will replace twitter, Still others that it will destroy Skype. Personally, I don’t think it will “destroy” any of those existing services, at least…

Nationalism is not to be confused with patriotism…By “patriotism” I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people…Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. ~ George Orwell…

So I’ve been involved in a couple of pretty intense discussions over the last couple of days on the Facebook wall of an acquaintance who appears to be a self-styled “anarchist.”  The concept of anarchy has a long and vivid history, and there are some things that I want to dispose of at the beginning…