Barack Obama gave future presidential hopefuls a clinic last fall on how to run for president.  You begin by writing a memoir about yourself.  Some might say that a memoir is something that is written after you have accomplished something, but Obama has proven that this genre can be bent to be used for the [...]

Jake has been urging me to answer whether I believe there is something to the data saying that there are trends indicating the presence of climate change or if this is all just a big liberal conspiracy.  to clearly answer this question for him, I would have to say that I believe that the scientific [...]

  It is probably time for us to all revisit junior high and break out a copy of George Orwell’s Animal Farm.  I couldn’t help but think of the basic outline of the Animal Farm plot the more that I learn the details of what Obama is doing to the auto industry in America.  The forced [...]

If you are going to read a book this year by someone whose last name is Friedman, you will probably narrow your list to two choices: The World is Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas Friedman or The Next 100 Years: A Forecast for the 21st Century by George Friedman I am normally a fan [...]

Followers of this blog know that I am a big fan of radical activism.  It is no surprise that I am therefore a big fan of the new show on Animal Planet called Whale Wars.  At first one might think that this show might be like a glorified version of a cockfight, where you watch [...]

Where the first Great Depression was epitomized by the migration of Dustbowl ihabitants to California, the not-so-great depression that is unfolding before our eyes will probably be characterized by bankrupt Californians relocating to states that haven’t been so improvident.  I am tempted to go buy an orchard, so that I can have some work for [...]

When I first read this story, I figuratively patted myself on the back for being American.  According to this study, Americans read 11 books per year.  If you would have asked me who read more between the British and the Americans I would have said the British.  Then I remembered that Britain has pretty much [...]

A few months ago, my wife’s cousin-in-law, Jana, asked me what books I read after I made a comment on my blog that most Americans have only been conditioned to read things by J.K. Rowling (who apparently is now being replaced by Stephanie Meyer as the one who has taken on the burden of encouraging [...]