In The Future

GM’s failure is a product of our demand. The problem is not that the general public didn’t want efficient vehicles, but that the general public rarely gets on bicycles. True, bicycles may be useful in some cases for short commutes. But the larger picture is that when people ride bicycles around town, the first thing […]

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Well-educated American children are well-indoctrinated of the everlasting genius of William Shakespeare’s work. We are told regularly that his work is one of the pinnacles of the written form. We eventually believe this as dispensed.  We may not read Shakespeare, we may rarely see his work performed, but we don’t doubt the concept. Sure enough, […]

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This morning I read an investment report that discounts photovoltatic as unworkable due to their manufacturing cost.Photovoltaics DO work, and they do produce more energy than is necessary to manufacture and transport them. They’re not common on houses yet, but they are common on sailboats and roadside hazard signs.But that’s not the whole story with […]

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Have you heard of anyone falling ill from any infected tomatoes? Yet all over the country, tomatoes are being pulled from restaurants and shelves. Why? Is salmonella really a problem? Compared with say, 100 years ago, isn’t salmonella barely a shadow of the problem it once was? Even during last year’s spinach scare, how many […]

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“I don’t think anybody really watches hockey any more,” said Tiger Woods today when asked about the NHL Stanley Cup. Hockey fans patiently and politely sit through golf news for a few tidbits of hockey, and then Woods tells us that nobody watches hockey anymore. Nobody watches hockey? It’s a miracle that so many people […]

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I’ve noticed something unusual about certain products, the batteries are sealed inside the unit. Sure, consumers hate it when they have to have the unit serviced when the battery gets weak, but manufacturers just keep doing it. Apple has been doing this for years. The battery is sealed inside of an iPod, and now with […]

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It’s natural for an economy to ebb and flow. But this time, it’s not going to break out under its own inertia as it did in the 1990s. If the economy is going to emerge healthy we need to start making moves to solve the problems that got us here in the first place. 1. […]

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  Here’s a question that a friend recently asked of me … how could mankind have survive for millions of years without inoculations? Are they really needed?   This is a question that is asked more often now that some parents don’t want their children to take the forced inoculations that their schools require. Some […]

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One of the saddest days of my boyhood happed the day my dad and I went sailing in our little styrofoam Snark in Cherry Creek Reservoir. A gust of wind caught the little sail before we had the daggerboard down all the way, and we found ourselves in the drink. I popped up to find […]

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It’s that time of the year again. Only this year, instead of just buying a few boxes at the door, we have a Girl Scout sales agent living under our roof, and the kitchen in filled with boxes of these cookies. For every person that we can’t find to complete their purchase, Mommy and Daddy […]

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