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A Reason to Think, and Think AgainTED Followup: Intelligence Sharing More Valuable than Secrecy
This interesting TED Talk is by General [[Stanley McCrystal]], who argues benefit from a culture shift of "needing to know" to giving information to people who can use it. "I am more scared of the bureaucrat that holds information in a desk drawer or in a safe than I...
Political ‘Mom and Dad’ Can’t Always Save Us From Monsters
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, March 2, 2011} I've had this theory about political parties for a long time. It’s so obvious, someone must have thought of it, but that won’t stop me from putting my name on it. I call it the Fagin Theory of Parental...
“GOP Shutdown” Also a DNC Shame
It's apparently some secret that the House of Representatives sets the federal budget and it's Senate's job to approve or send it back with suggestions and compromises. When the latter didn't do this, the former was blamed. Except that's not exactly how it played out....
TED Tuesday: Solving Violence as an Epidemic
Here's a TED Talk that takes a novel approach to violent crime. Treating it like a contagious epidemic, it addresses the issues of the individual and their connections to others rather than guns or poverty -- and with amazing results.
Poverty is Not Inequality
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as "America's real problem is with spiritual poverty", September 26, 2013} The poverty problem in America has been solved. If you want to talk about poverty of the spirit, inequality of wealth, inequality of opportunity, or...
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