Common Sense – if it was good enough for Benjamin Franklin, it’s good enough for me. You Senators and Congressmen know damn well what the best health care plan is – you’ve got it for yourselves, and for the Supreme Court and for everyone that works at the White House. All three branches of government [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]