by Barry Fagin | Feb 17, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “Looking back one last time at love, hope and transitions” on June 14th, 2012} Three times on these pages I’ve dropped off a child at college or seen one graduate. Today’s column will be the last. Three years...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 11, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
The speaker in this TED Talk suggests that hacking — amateur modifications to existing things — is a highly democratic process, citing Ben Franklin as a role model for such activity, and crowdsourcing of municipal information as modern examples. The most...
by Barry Fagin | Feb 3, 2014 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture, Uncategorized
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette as “White Privilege Conference at CC oppresses capitalism”, Sept. 28, 2011} The bumper sticker says “Just because God is a bigoted *$#@! doesn’t mean you have to be.” It’s going to be an interesting day. I’m...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 23, 2014 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
What do the revolutions associated with Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and even the French in the late 18th Century have in common? More than you’d think. One could even say that they were various incarnations of the same sentiments, refined from populism against a royal...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 20, 2014 | Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, July 8, 2011} What do you wear to the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster? Well past my 50th birthday, it’s nice to start a day with a question I’ve never faced before. Shorts and sandals, apparently, are forbidden....
by Barry Fagin | Jan 13, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, as “Obesity is not a disease; neither is alcoholism”, August 31, 2011} This week, I achieved a personal milestone: 20 lbs of weight lost in six months. How? I’ve discovered this ancient Zoroastrian dieting secret...
