12 Articles

Sunday, June 29, 2008
Conflicts of interests
The Democrats are pursuing a people-based strategy of fund-raising by refusing donations from lobbyists and PACs while pursuing a corporate-based strategy of Congressional voting and Presidential campaign jockeying. It's boundless: The chronic stupidity of a party leadership conflicted by soft, liberal intentions and hard, conservative (wealth and power) interests.

Friday, June 20, 2008
Democratic Circles
(2 comments) What we call Democratic Circles is a plan to build a national political/cultural organization of direct democracies - to rebuild a thriving and effective "We the People."

Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Freedom, Libertarians, and Football
(6 comments) The concepts of freedom and liberty deserve better discrimination, especially in view of the recent popularization of libertarianism by Ron Paul. Americans, especially, have tended to treat the two concepts as synonymous, but freedom and liberty actually express important differences.

Thursday, August 30, 2007
Politics: Left and Right or Large and Small?
A political circle of inclusion is suggested as a substitute for the conventional political spectrum.

Thursday, August 16, 2007
Science, technique and philosophy
(1 comments) Science has grown authoritarian, overreaching, conservative and cold in its own estimation as an institution of truth, rather than a branch of philosophy. A more progressive perspective identifies science as a philosophy, or rather, a series of philosophies, subject to challenge even from outside its temples.

Sunday, July 22, 2007
Individuals, societies, and the classification of organisms
Modern taxonomy consists in the classification of organisms primarily according to their genetic proximity. With this emphasis there is insufficient attention to levels of organization whereby interdependent but merely composite associations of cells would be distinguished from actual multicellular individuals.

Sunday, July 8, 2007
The Difference Between Liberals and Progressives
(16 comments) No one seems to talk much about the difference between liberals and progressives, in fact the two are usually treated as being pretty much synonymous. But there are differences, and I believe they're significant.

Monday, June 18, 2007
Gravitation and its misappropriation by quantum theory
(2 comments) It is argued that the attempt to assimilate gravitation in quantum theory is inconsistent with the principles of science. Two thought experiments are employed to demonstrate that the quantum concept of gravitation is incompatible with the general theory of relativity, and without either theoretical foundation or empirical support.

Friday, June 15, 2007
Evolving Design - A third way between evolution and creation
(12 comments) There's another way of thinking about the evolution issue that many may find more palatable, less polarizing that "random mutation" or "creation".

Friday, June 15, 2007
Illegal Immigration: Left and right or top and bottom?
(3 comments) Reducing the issue of illegal immigration to an opposition between those on top and those on bottom, rather than between the left and right.

Friday, June 15, 2007
The Essence of Faggotry
(4 comments) The etymology of the word "fag" has everything to do with virtue, little to do with sexual orientation.

Thursday, June 7, 2007
The Concept of Loyalty and George W. Bush
A consideration of the concept of loyalty shows that Bush's protection of his subordinates isn't loyalty, nor is it a pardonable fault.