by Barry Fagin | Oct 3, 2011 | Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 5-17-07} Two men were kicked out of a Boston Pops concert last week. Apparently, they started fighting because one of them wouldn’t stop talking during the performance. If that’s true, getting kicked out was too good for the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 15, 2011 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Based on Facebook and LinkedIn conversations in August 2011} I just realized that at our block party, the only two neighbors who had grilled steaks (and didn’t share) paid for it with my tax dollars, while those of us who earned what we ate, did so less...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 1, 2011 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This article is specifically NOT about unions. But they will be mentioned, a lot. This is because over a hundred years of exposure to Leftist economic philosophy has conditioned us to think solely within the adversarial paradigm of the rich versus the poor, the...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 22, 2011 | Psychology, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 3-08-07} Vickie Lynn Hogan passed away last month. She was 39. She was married to a billionaire. She was a Supreme Court litigant supported by the Bush administration. She was Anna Nicole Smith. Conservative pundits point to...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 18, 2011 | Religion & Spirituality, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
We just rented the movie “Paul”, the comedy of an alien who finds his way home with the help of a couple British geek tourists. I enjoyed it, but then I give generous stars to most movies I see. But when I watch a movie, I also often see the ideology of...
by Barry Fagin | Aug 15, 2011 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
{Follow-up to “Old Give Way to Young, But Not Without Fears” and published in the Colorado Springs Gazette.} I know politically charged op-eds generate more letters to the editor and comments online. One of my colleagues prefers them because they “stir the...