Sunday, March 8, 2009
Distortion of a Perfectly Good Term - "Rolling"
SHARE Yes, we're "rolling", but not the way some young people use the term these days. And what a shame that this term, like some others, has become distorted from its worthwhile life/happiness promoting meaning.

       Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Government Schemes - Grander Versions of Madoff's
SHARE The very strong similarity between the actions of Bernard Madoff and government is there for those who will but see.

(1 comments)        Friday, October 10, 2008
Knowledge and Its Understanding of Value Requires Reasoned Thought
SHARE A response to Sean, and similar others, who have not spent the time and/or effort to understand what value is - and how it is determined, that money enables measuring value for the purposes of exchange, and what effect governments have on the economic transactions in a society.

(20 comments)        Monday, October 6, 2008
Socialism by Any Name is Not an Alternative to What Currently Exists
SHARE A response to John and others with similar ideas.

(5 comments)        Friday, July 4, 2008
For Brian
SHARE A new diary entry for a new day and hopefully some better understanding.....

(28 comments)        Monday, June 30, 2008
Response to OEN Editor Flag on A Comment
SHARE Left as it is, the Editor's Flag on a comment of mine, especially with the supposed offending paragraph removed, would surely leave any reader thinking that I had committed some grievous offense towards the author of a Diary Entry.

       Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Optimizing Lifetime Happiness with McElroy's Frugalista
SHARE I and Paul are frugal people because we have found it helps us towards optimizing our lifetime happiness. Wendy McElroy has even developed a name for the study of being frugal in order to increase the quality of her life - Frugalista.

(2 comments)        Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Critique of "Bio-Politics" Article: Argument for Societal Self-Regulation
SHARE Metaphors are often helpful to visualize a complex concept. Unfortunately by definition they are always incomplete (not true isomorphisms) and they are often confusing and even distorting to accurate thinking. In fact, the more complex the situations attempted to be related, the more likely are the latter faults to be true.

       Monday, December 24, 2007
A Trend Toward Reasoned Thinking??
SHARE "Global warming has, temporarily or permanently, ceased. Temperatures across the world are not increasing as they should according to the fundamental theory behind global warming – the greenhouse effect. Something else is happening and it is vital that we find out what or else we may spend hundreds of billions of pounds needlessly."