Bush / McCain legacy
It has been mentioned in recent articles and multiple comments by John McCain that due to recent events in Iraq that the 2008 troop Surge has worked and that history may show that Bush and company...
View ArticleThe Herndon phenomenon - a Naval Academy tradition and model for a...
At our U.S. Naval Academy there is a tall stone obelisk named for Captain Herndon, a Naval hero who elected to go down with his ship and the men left aboard in a storm in 1857 rather than save himself....
View ArticleNew Rant re Obama 2nd quarter grades
See: Huffpost linkTo the President, an open letter:The post by Robert Scheer today is about the Madoff scandal and how it reflects one of many measures of the Obama presidency.Your grades are listed...
View ArticleHealth care reform options nearing solidification - but wrong ingredients...
Health care reform options being finalized by Congress have been skewed to keep real reform off the table.
View ArticleMercury test requirement to vote.
It may be time to consider changing election law to reflect local mercury contamination levels -- voters in states where the neurotoxin level exceeds EPA standards in water and fish will have to...
View ArticleSorry to be a buzz kill
I organized and campaigned for Obama with all my heart - a blue marble in the red sea of eastern Oregon, but I'm with Ralph Nader on this one.
View ArticleSpace debris collisions - orbital billiards
A high stakes game is in play in near-earth orbit with hundreds of players, all in high-speed motion.http://www.reuters.com/...minor pun alertI know this is not a purely political topic, but I thought...
View ArticleCall for Cultural Evolution
http://www.youtube.com/...Paul Ehrlich points out our ethical obligation to try to change our culture to improve life on earth for all concerned.
View ArticleChecklists
When human beings are placed in positions of responsibility with life and death consequences of failures of omission or commission, there has been a clear demonstration of better outcomes when...
View ArticleProgressive Milestones in History (and delays in progress)
A retrospective on macroscale progressive events in history and delays imposed by resistance to progress. Feel free to add your own historical progressive events in comments.Here's the format:Fire:1.9...
View ArticleBush / McCain legacy
It has been mentioned in recent articles and multiple comments by John McCain that due to recent events in Iraq that the 2008 troop Surge has worked and that history may show that Bush and company...
View ArticleThe Herndon phenomenon - a Naval Academy tradition and model for a...
At our U.S. Naval Academy there is a tall stone obelisk named for Captain Herndon, a Naval hero who elected to go down with his ship and the men left aboard in a storm in 1857 rather than save himself....
View ArticleNew Rant re Obama 2nd quarter grades
See: Huffpost linkTo the President, an open letter:The post by Robert Scheer today is about the Madoff scandal and how it reflects one of many measures of the Obama presidency.Your grades are listed...
View ArticleHealth care reform options nearing solidification - but wrong ingredients...
Health care reform options being finalized by Congress have been skewed to keep real reform off the table.The President stated tonight that having a public option for health insurance will incentivize...
View ArticleMercury test requirement to vote.
It may be time to consider changing election law to reflect local mercury contamination levels -- voters in states where the neurotoxin level exceeds EPA standards in water and fish will have to...
View ArticleSorry to be a buzz kill
I organized and campaigned for Obama with all my heart - a blue marble in the red sea of eastern Oregon, but I'm with Ralph Nader on this one."To my progressive friends, I would remind you that for...
View ArticleReflections on a victorious campaign
David Plouffe has a new book... The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama's Historic VictoryRead more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...Someone one day will have to tell us...
View ArticleSpace debris collisions - orbital billiards
A high stakes game is in play in near-earth orbit with hundreds of players, all in high-speed motion.http://www.reuters.com/...minor pun alertI know this is not a purely political topic, but I thought...
View ArticleCall for Cultural Evolution
http://www.youtube.com/...Paul Ehrlich points out our ethical obligation to try to change our culture to improve life on earth for all concerned.A call for cultural evolution. A biologist's...
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