On the eve of Obama's first State of the Union address, the left is waking up from its mass psychological hysteria, only to find that too many hits on the Obamamania crack pipe have left the country penniless, warring, and demoralized.  A vicious hangover indeed.  In a recent article, Pscyhologist Bruce Levine disccuses the causes [...]

Less than 24 hours after the announcement of a 7.3 magnitude earthquake in Haiti, the global fundraising machine has begun turning it's wheels.  Those companies and NGO's in the business of disaster are licking their chops to make Haiti the next massive disaster-relief Ponzi scheme for the rich. Haiti's democratic revolution, inspired the by ideals of [...]

Permaculture is a design science. It can be studied, and thus internalized. When done so successfully, our thinking is transformed. The world is a garden, with potentially infinite yields. This is the basis for radical changes in human behavior.  Radicalism is distasteful to the thoughtful amongst us? It is because [...]

An earnest attempt to encourage the inevitable transition of our economies would place small business at the center of the strategy.  Now personally, because of my libertarian leanings, I am not one to put much faith in government programs and massive intervention, but seeing as we are already spending upwards of 7 trillion dollars on [...]

Reading over Chris Lydon's musings from the Symi Symposium in Greece left me feeling melancholy and despairing; and a thought that has been crystallizing in my mind just started running over and over again in my internal dialogue: our institutions are paralyzed by egotism, self-interest, and inefficiency. [...]