Our Cancer Cured, Now Our Recovery

The illness that we have struggled with since the election of Ronald Reagan in 1981 has been eliminated. We are like a people who have collectively been afflicted with a slow growing cancer that almost killed us during the Bush presidency. Last night we got the CT scan and lab work back and our doctor [...]

Obama, Tom Bradley, in Historical Context

There has been a lot of talk about Barack Obama and poll results that show him with a significant lead over John McCain in this year

Obama, Edwards, Clintion, and Change

Why is the change message resonating outside the orbit of motivated progressive political activists? I think people have an innate sense that everything is degrading under their feet and they have been lied to and abused by the elites who are represented by the Republican party and PR machine. All Republican marketing/propaganda tactics sound like [...]

A Biological Model of Foreign Policy

Couldn’t we have a foreign policy that was based on biology instead of social rank competition. A foreign policy based on biological principals and functions would not abandon self defense, biological entities and processes engage in self defense all the time. A biologically based foreign policy also would not have to avoid resource acquisition and [...]

Love, an Organizing Principal for Human Systems

My original idea of how to define Love as an organizing principal for human systems was formed like this; Love = consciousness of mutually beneficial exchange across semi-permeable boundaries. I thought that would be a good systems oriented working definition.

Now I want to change the systems definition of Love to; Love = Consciousness of existing [...]

Single Savior Notion

The Messiah, the Great One, the One Beyond Compare
Is here, was there, will come, is truth, at last they dare
Some say Marx, or Adam Smith, Jesus or Mohamed
Sale of Single Saviors, an ongoing human drama

The world goes on and on, the marketing machine
Selling single saviors exploiting every dream

Sugar, Consumer Culture, and Sustainability

I am powerless over sugar. I crave sugar, but only when I don’t have it, or immediately after I have eaten it. I don’t crave sugar when I sleep, but I have a job and kids and have to stay awake for a large part of every day and it’s during that period of time [...]

Violence, Boboons, Republicans, and Social Signals

We have to manage the Baboon level of our society in a way that decreases the effectiveness of violence as a tool for achieving social rank and control. Male baboons use violence to establish rank within the male hierarchy of their baboon troop. The highest ranking male then gets breeding rights with any female he [...]

Climate Crisis Denial, a New Twist from NASA Administrator, Michael Griffen

In a recent interview with Steve Inskeep of NPR, Michale Griffen (NASA Administrator) is quoted as saying;

I have no doubt that global — that a trend of global warming exists. I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a [...]

Sound Bites

A short
Little blurb
Words that cut
And sparkle
Are there
Then gone
In their wake
A trail
In your head

Lafayette Crosses, Biology, and Foreign Policy

I visited the Lafayette Crosses, a memorial to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq, a few days ago and took some pictures. You have to get pretty far away to include most of the crosses in the picture

As you get closer you can read the sign.

All Along the Watchtower, Parsifal, and Climate Change

Bob Dylan

Politics, Economics, and Change

When Bill Clinton focused his presidential campaign around the phrase

Let it break your heart

Let it break your heart. Let it in. We are just beginning to understand that we are destroying the life sustaining attributes of the world we live in. There isn