by Barry Fagin | Jan 16, 2012 | Education, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 11-1-07} It’s not often I take issue with Thomas Sowell. A senior scholar at Stanford’s Hoover Institution, a worldclass economist and a prolific author, he’s forgotten more about public policy then I’ll ever know. He gets...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 12, 2012 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
I honestly never thought I’d have to write an article on this subject. I mean seriously … why would this be major news? Terrible things happen in war, but thanks to modern media, the worst, remote incidents can become internationally-acclaimed video...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 9, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 10-18-07} Shortly after my last column, the Gazette ran a series on the working poor in El Paso County. After reading all the articles, I was struck by two things: 1) For the people profiled, dating, getting married, having...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 2, 2012 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-1-06} Did you know the world ended last week? A comet was supposed to hit the earth, kept secret by a government conspiracy. The impact would have caused a devastating tsunami, killing millions. Good thing it didn’t...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 29, 2011 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
The End of the World is Nigh! Or, at least as much as it’s always been. Are you a prophet or the follower of one? If so, I’m willing to place bets against any and all such prophesies, at any odds, because frankly, I have more sense than you. Besides, if...
by Barry Fagin | Dec 26, 2011 | Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 10-4-2007} The e-mail to my boss arrived that morning. “You knew Randy, right?” Indeed I did. Dr. Randy Pausch, professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon and my college classmate, had just given a lecture...
