Consider, Reconsider
A Reason to Think, and Think AgainAre Terrorists the Ultimate Attention Whores?
Just a quick thought: Terrorism is about attention more than anything. Violence is the tool, and fear is the fuel, but in the end it's about attention. On the micro level, I have never seen strangers so enraged as when they are angry AND ignored. Now I would like to...
What if the LAX Shooter Is Not Insane?
It took me a while to process what I felt about the shooting of [[TSA]] employees in Los Angeles. Everyone assumes it was a disturbed individual, or perhaps an "extremist" at best. But what if he wasn't? So many citizens have been outraged at what the TSA "agents" do...
The USA, NSA, and an Optimistic Orwell
Perhaps the most timely and important TED Talk of our time on the subject of government spying, we can no longer be shocked but outraged. Defending arguments swiftly dispatched, it brings into focus the scope of the problem, and it's decimation of all declarations of...
Belief in Obvious Nonsense is Not a Harmless Indulgence
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, October 27, 2010} Why do people believe in things that are obviously nonsense? Halloween is around the corner. It was great fun when my kids were little; I still enjoy it when kids come to my door. Dressing up as scary...
Less Voting, More Vetting
Many support the idea of public funding for campaigns as an alternative to private. I say we change the way we think about campaigning and it's very legitimacy. And I have a better solution, one whose ideas are already gaining speed in some places (such as Iceland)...
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