by Barry Fagin | Mar 4, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-14} The “Cloth of Turin” is once again in the news. (It’s not intellectually honest to say “Shroud of Turin”, since there is no evidence it ever held a body). Yet another claim of Cloth believers has been proven...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 21, 2013 | Politics & Law
There’s been some awakening to what I realized years ago — the paradigm of businesses and government balancing each other out is a sham. The Left trusts government to fix the world these days; the Right trusts a Free Market to do its thing as long as the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 12, 2013 | Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
The following TED Talk gives us a lesson on how improving the appearance of an environment can influence quality of life. I myself have noticed that graffiti tends to be only on badly-kept or abandoned properties, even to the point where an old railroad embankment...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 31, 2013 | Politics & Law
Reaction After the election, a flood of calls for secession took the form of petitions on the White House web site. It was inevitable. Is it because Obama won a second term? Sort of. There are a lot of people out there who simply don’t like to see their team...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 21, 2013 | Education, Politics & Law
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 8-6-09} Last Sunday’s Gazette had a story about a center for math tutoring. I admire the entrepreneurial spirit of the owner. His business is a classic example of market success responding to government failure. All the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 17, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Federal disaster exercises using the much-in-fashion concept of a zombie apocalypse have been the cause of amusement and ridicule by the general public. And it is defended by a rationale that can be swallowed. But what of deeper, darker implications? “The...
