Global cataclysm, mass extinctions and ecosystem collapse
Body: All coming soon, to a planet near you.
View ArticleKill the Bill: Nine Reasons
Body: Here are nine reasons the Senate health care reform bill should be killed:1) The bill gives almost no real help 'til 2014. In the short term, the bill does nothing about the fatalities,...
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The Right Message on the Catfood Commission
Body: [OK, I'm de-sticky-ing this at lets's implicit request. --lambert][I'm leaving this sticky for the super comments thread, where contirbutors are doing what the old school blogosphere excelled at...
View ArticleThe Only Way Around All That Money
Body: ByJoseph M. Firestone and Nancy Bordier begin_of_the_skype_highlighting end_of_the_skype_highlightingWe think most people agree that money has corrupted our politics. Some even think that we...
View ArticleWe Need A Tax and Spend Party Again
Body: It's been nearly 35 years since we've had a “tax and spend” political party. During the 1970s, the Democrats gave up fighting the Republicans about the “tax and spend” label, and the Carter...
View ArticlePlanning the Interactive Voter Choice System
Tags: DemocracyPlutocracyInteractive Voter Choice Systemvoting blocsre-inventing democracytranspartisan voting blocsopen societyopen society epistemological controlsWelcome to the Interactive Voter...
View ArticleThe Threat to Open Society and the Interactive Voter Choice System
Body: The ProblemThe biggest problem for Americans in our time is the increasingly dangerous threat to open society posed by the trend toward plutocracy and its effects on the political system. George...
View ArticleIs there Macroeconomics?
Body: The claim of Austrian school economists that "there is no macroeconomics" because the political-economic system at the macro level is explainable in terms of the aggregated attributes and...
View Article"Code is law." Literally.
Body: The Law is the true embodimentOf everything that's excellent.It has no kind of fault or flaw,And I, my Lords, embody the Law.--The Lord Chancellor, Iolanthe, Gilbert and Sullivan[Welcome,...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Don Beyer, VA – 8th Candidate for Congress
Body: My Congressman, Jim Moran, is retiring this year and his seat is up for grabs in the VA – 8th Congressional District. This is a solidly blue district made even more solid by the Republican...
View ArticleIs the MSM Blackout on Inequality, Plutocracy, and Oligarchy Ending?
Body: All of a sudden MSNBC cable commentators are talking about plutocracy and oligarchy. Surprisingly, the first occurrence of this I'm aware of was Chuck Todd, reacting on his Daily Rundown show to...
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