Yes, it’s true. I’m really so terribly upset by where we find ourselves after all the hope of the last election. Yes, I feel completely betrayed. I understand why many still hold out a conviction that things are going to get better, but I don’t think so, not for a while, not for a long [...]

Having again waded into politics with part 1 of my thoughts on the health care mess, I find myself swimming in rather interesting (perhaps treacherous, even foolish to some) waters. After all, hasn’t it been made abundantly clear to us all that it is the experts who are going to help us make clear the [...]

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I woke up out of a dream this morning, acutely aware that while I can go to any movie theatre and see America deeply involved in a space program (the last Star Trek by J.J. Abrams, for instance, was great fun) nonetheless the real space program is nearly dead on the vine. What happened?  How [...]