They’ll Get It Right This Time

by | Oct 1, 2014 | Politics

As the war drums beat in demand for yet another US military involvement in the middle east, I can’t help but think we’ve heard this all before. As our warplanes and drones drop bombs in Syria, I’m reminded of past jingoism and loud declarations. As...

Greed and Envy

by | Sep 28, 2014 | Culture

I had an interaction recently over the Biblical proverb money is the root of all evil. I corrected the original poster, noting that the saying is actually the love of money is the root of all evil. The OP didn’t acknowledge a difference. I didn’t think...

Is There A Red Pill For The Wealthy?

by | Sep 27, 2014 | Culture

Pay even a little attention to any left-liberal protest, and you will hear diatribes against the 1% and against big corporations. These twin and overlapping pillars of malevolence are, we are told, the source of all that’s wrong in our society. They’re the...

Privacy, Technology and Market Forces

by | Sep 25, 2014 | Culture

Recently, Apple made a big splash in the news with an announcement that its new system of data encryption would make it impossible for the company to comply with demands from the government that data on an individual’s smartphone be retrieved and provided to the...

Principled But Not Absolutist

by | Sep 23, 2014 | Culture, Politics

In the past couple months, I unfriended two people on Facebook over politics. They were both “friends” only via politics – one was invited by a friend of a friend into my blog, and the other friended me because of my political postings – so I...