OK, now I am interested as I have - or this blog -been noted by the thinker whose thoughts were noted which notation was then noted by me. Now I have to think a bit more about this.

This essay on the state of New Orleans in Time Magazine is an unsettling read. Being involved in the life of a municipal government, I recall when I was watching the hurricanes and the floods wondering things like if he ground would not be become saturated with salt or how the tax base would be …

The BBC is reporting on a study that has become a BBC TV program...or maybe a BBC TV program that became a study...they seem to specialize in that which came first thing:  •  “In an unusual three-month experiment, six specialists from a variety of disciplines worked to improve the happiness levels …

When I was a kid there was a phrase kicking around: "generation gap." It generally referred to the folks older than me and the folks much older than me. It would be raised by the WWI era vets in our early 1970s church tisking when looking at long haired college kids wearing tie-dye and jeans, that …

“...the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.”  •  Branding, which has actually taken a hit lately if you have been watching, is the presentation of something as it isn't so that you will accept that thing …

There are plenty of folk who use blogs - imagine - to blindly criticize our fair land, saying it is a shame that we do not have standing armed forces of 250,000 to rattle our swords now and then, saying it is a shame that we are taxed for sensible public services looking with envy southward where …

Why would I feel sad for someone who I like as much as any other 80s pop person who has done a very good job on the celebrity circuit? Because she seems to just want to be doing something that is real, fairly mainstream as things go and well intentioned:  •  “Madonna said the Kabbalah was "not …

So...are some Albertans who are going to get $400.00 each as a bonus (plus rebates) from their Provincnial Government for making so much money off selling oil and gas at the current high prices also going to get the $250.00 the Federal Government is providing to low income Canadians for having to …

For no other reason than perhaps the had cold medicine I started thinking about the word "futurist" last night. Without pointing any fingers, I think it's nuts and should be much the same as "quack" - which it really is to 96.7% of the population. There are mainly techno-quack futurists but some …