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November 8, 2016

American Monarchy

I was wrong: The Kingmakers were better than the Queenmakers Blog posted hours before the election was over http://www.areyoustupid.us/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Rethinking-the-Presidency.pdf Regardless of their political choices (red, blue, alternative parties), Americans just voted in the spirit of an obsession with dynasty and monarchy that is baffling. The Revolution was supposed to have brought royalty to an end […]



November 15, 2015

A new way of thinking and acting

Paris, September 15, 2015 Terrorist attack in Paris—the second in 10 months. Refugees storm Europe’s borders. Ebola. Market crashes. Inter-racial strife. To such crises, the best that the advanced nations do is to react. Action – reaction beautifully describes physical phenomena—Thank you, Newton. The living—individual human beings or society—is defined by anticipation: the current state […]



September 18, 2015

The next wave of refugees

The next wave of refugees will be 3 to 4 million, not 350,000. After that, 10 million (and growing). Desperation is a powerful driving force; survival leads to extreme behavior. President Obama issued an Executive Order focused on Behavioral Science in the context in which the subject is of more relevance than what the Order […]



September 1, 2015

Immigration and refugees: more of the same is not the answer

The equation of immigration is simple. A child born in the Western world costs over one million dollars in order to become a productive participant in the economy. The cost of raising a child to become a highly qualified professional is double. It costs almost nothing to allow an immigrant to become the same. All […]



July 29, 2012

Olympic kitsch—nothing more

The price of the extravaganza was outdone only by its bad taste, which was worse that what propaganda experts churn out for their totalitarian rulers.



December 15, 2008

It’s the user, stupid . . . or maybe not

Digital technology is pervasive and makes so many things possible: from the ubiquitous e-mail to movies downloaded to one’s computer. Computers are part of our cars, they are our cell phones. They are becoming an essential part of the world we live in—and even part of our own bodies. Albeit, the unintended costs associated with […]



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