I understand now why it is so important to create a family. Here at the end of my life I am terrified, lonely and desolate. I am unfit for human companionship, unable to afford housing or food and unable to find any comfort. Every moment is agony, I can no longer lose myself in series […]
Category: OPINION
What Is The US Carrying Capacity?
Human population carrying capacity is a term that roughly means the maximum number of individuals that can survive at a specified level of consumption on a specified area of land for a long, if not indefinite, period of time. For decades the United States carrying capacity was considered to be about 200 million humans.Of course […]
Make America America Again
This ‘make America great again’ schtick, is at best pabulum for folks who value ego over reality. Being called great should never be a goal and definitely never a national policy. It is the stuff of promoters and conmen and childish egoist or sociopathic dictators. We are great when we are united, just, keep our […]
Benjamin Franklin and arguing on the internet
Arguing on the Internet is the worst. No one ever changes their mind. No one ever really learns anything new. Internet arguers start their arguments aggressive with clichés, catch phrases, slogans and usually a not too subtle insult of anyone that disagrees with them. We’ve probably all done it. We may open with a snarky […]
A Socratic Questioning Dialogue on The Minimum Wage
Here is an example of a Socratic Questioning Dialogue. It is incomplete because the two participants, one of whom was in fact me, had to return to work but I think that it is a valid, albeit long winded, civil discussion that began to probe the reasons that advocates of a minimum wage have for so […]
What The Left May Have Right
As a self avowed, ‘right-winger’ I sometimes have to reflect on the necessity of the left wing. When I do I can not avoid the conclusion that the existence of the left, of collective thought, is vital to our social, economic, and physical health as much as the existence of the right wing belief in […]
