Random Thoughts

As someone that has little use for government, I find myself in the awkward position of actually defending it when I hear the utter nonsense put forth by people suggesting that the private sector can…

If left unaddressed, the U.S. government's growing debt will inevitably limit America's future wealth and risk a disruptive fiscal crisis, claims a new report from the National Research Council and…

If you are unsure what a buzzword is, please first read:The Buzzword Blog #2 : What is a Buzzword? The Buzzword Blog #6 : CustomerThe word 'customer' comes via old French from the Latin consuetudinem…

The more hands of online poker a player wins, the more money that person is likely to lose, concludes a study conducted by a Cornell sociology doctoral student. The likely reason being that multiple…

Parents are acutely aware of the influence that friends exert over their children's behavior -- how they dress, how they wear their hair, whether they drink or smoke. And now a new laboratory-based…

Science is inextricably interwoven with cosmology, with theology, with epistemology, with ethics, politics, and psychology, all of them crucial to exploration into the human condition. A cosmology…

In an effort to be more environmentally conscious, the United States government is dolling out various rebates and tax credits to consumers who purchase more earth friendly, energy efficient…

      AN OLD SUICIDE NOTE     Ayad Gharbawi   From my eye That once Used to win And now Getting to be Upset In my own blood That is still So unreal.   So goodnight…

...Why are you so insistent on the sweeping Poetry of sky and sea? Are you, then, fonderOf the circumference of earth's impoundingThan of some sphere on which the mind might blunder, If you, with…

Every now and then, someone invites me to join some social network, and the same thing usually happens: - I sign up, enter in some subset of the usual 'profile' questions (especially the personal…