Great Expectations
Monday, August 28th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »My friend Andy http://tornvertical.blogspot.com posted on an interesting topic this week: expectations. He says he wishes he didn’t have any expectations, because then he couldn’t be disappointed. Disappointment is a significant part of the human existence, and it stems from ...
Gratuitous Love
Saturday, August 26th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »{A Necessary Aside: There was an epoch in human existence when the great minds of the world argued with one another through letters to the editor, personal letters to one another, dueling books, chamber debates, and the like. The distinct ...
On the Utility and Social Change of Technological Innovation
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »"It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being."John Stuart Mill--I must always muse at comments like Mill's quote above. He makes a fairly accurate point--the average American works ...
YouTube’s Mishap
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »If you navigate right now at the time of this posting to the popular video download site YouTube http://www.youtube.com you will find that your tube isn’t there. A few weeks ago, MySpace went down (and lost more profiles than it’s ...
Re-Democratizating the House Part II
Tuesday, August 15th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »As I further entrench myself into the blogosphere, I am enjoying reading other people’s blogs, which is something I suppose I ought to do more of, since I hope that people will read mine. I have been reading comments others ...
Re-Democratizing the House of Representatives
Saturday, August 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »When the U.S. Constitution was originally ratified, it provided that the House of Representatives should be comprised of one representative elected for every 30,000 people in each state. After the first census provided for the enumeration of the House under ...
Thoughts While Watching a Baseball Game
Saturday, August 12th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »I only infrequently have multi-topic blog posts, but I probably ought to do it more often. What better opportunity, though, to post such a sporatic bit of nonsense than a baseball game. Right now the Rangers ...
Britain’s Home Secretary on the Fungibility of Liberty
Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »I am writing this entry from my seat on a commercial airliner after being repeatedly interrogated prior to boarding about whether or not I had in my possession any liquids including bottled water or hair gel. ...
Bless Those Who Curse You
Thursday, August 10th, 2006 Posted in Personal Growth | No Comments »I'm eating breakfast at an out of town hotel and drinking my morning coffee before I hop on a plane back to Dallas. This week has been an enormous lesson in "bless those who curse you." ...
Manipulating People
Wednesday, August 9th, 2006 Posted in Personal Growth | No Comments »I usually blog sporatically and when I have sat down and given enough thought to write a lengthy post. I will most assuredly continue my long posts, but it is my hope to intersperse them with ...