The Importance of the Image of "What we are." -- Avoiding the "Midwest Disease" (Jan 12)
Thoughts on the upcoming US-Pakistan divorce -- It will be ugly (Dec 11)
Thoughts on what makes a good transportation system -- A good transportation net is a transparent transportation net (Dec 11)
Surprising Symbiotes: Social Justice Promotes Corporate Greed -- Who fires the demand for "rock star" CEO's? The people demanding social justice! (Nov 11)
Regulation Cap and Trade -- If Cap and Trade is good for controlling hot air in the environment, how about using it to control hot air in the government? (Oct 11)
Thoughts on the Bank Trading Desk Scandals -- The losers make news, where are the winners? (Sep 11)
Thoughts on Job Creation and Destruction -- If you don't want someone doing a particular commercial activity in your community don't pay them to do it. (Sep 11)
The story of a sad little phone number -- a tale of technology abuse (Aug 11)
Thoughts on what's coming in the Investment Markets -- it was inconceivable... in its literal meaning! (Aug 11)
The Purpose of General Education: Teaching Analysis -- We all benefit the more everyone learns the skill of analytic thinking. (Aug 11)
A Progressive Thinking Blind Spot: Paying Workers for Enduring and Risking -- why shouldn't enduring and risking be employable qualities like lifting and office equipment skills? (Jul 11)
The Kurzweil Blog -- in which I discuss my thoughts as I read Kurzweil's "The Singularity is Near" (May 11)
The Cost of Confidence -- We have an instinct to trust confident people. Instinct... umm... Watch out! (Apr 11)
Learning by Reading and Learning by Watching -- Is it different? You bet! (Nov 10)
The Hayek Blog -- in which I discuss my thoughts as I read Hayek's "Road to Serfdom". (Oct 10)
The Dark Side of "Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda" -- We ask too much of terrorist security, and pay for it with lost liberty. (Oct 10)
Thoughts on Ethical Issues -- A series of essays inspired by taking a philosophy course in the summer of 2010 (June 10)
Thoughts on Mortality -- Why do multi-cellular organisms grow old and die? It's for a good reason! (May 10)
Arm-long Itemized Bills: A Symptom of Over-Regulation -- if a provider produces an arm's-length itemized bill, it's a sign that too many people are interested in this transaction. (Apr 10)
Thoughts on Cleveland -- In the 1960's Cleveland was The Best Location in the Nation. In the 2010's it's The Mistake on the Lake. What happened? (Mar 10)
Blind Spots in American Thinking -- We care, we spend, we get grief not relief (Mar 10)
Thoughts on Health Care -- The Curse of the Patronized Patient (Feb 10)
Thoughts on Japan's Lost Decade -- How lost was it? Is America going to lose the 2010's? (Jan 10)
An Annotated Example of Roger Thinking about a criminal tragedy (Dec 09)
Civilians Can't Try Terrorists? What Hooey! -- A thinking scar from 9-11 (Oct 09)
Enfranchisement, Crime and Gangs -- if enfranchisement is down, crime is up (Oct 09)
The Curse of Being Important - if you want to kill an idea, make it important! (Oct 09)
Thoughts on the Differences Between Art and Craft in Acting (Sep 09)
Thoughts on Human Enjoyment of Altering Consciousness - and of others judging it (Apr 09)