August 2021

Whereas delegation of powers negates the separation of powers, and “the accumulation of all powers legislative, executive and judiciary in the same hands” has been termed “the very definition of tyranny”,* therefore the following amendment to the Constitution of the United States is proposed: Congress shall not delegate its legislative powers, nor shall Congress delegate […]

Have you noticed how big businesses seem to keep getting bigger? Many banks and similar financial institutions are now said to be “too big to fail.” Big software companies constantly buy out their smaller rivals. We see the same big company names over and over in small print on the items we buy at the

Through many decades of experimentation and observation, I have determined that all of human knowledge can be divided into just two categories. The first consists of those topics of which I know just enough to be dangerous. The second consists of those topics of which I don’t yet know enough to be dangerous. Posted 2021/08/09

Better policing may someday make it into the “Big Ideas” section of this blog, but I have not yet given it enough study and thought. For now, here are some ideas and links. This video from the Institute for Humane Studies argues for a return to community policing, where the citizens know the officers and

I haven’t been able to find the interview, but sometime in the first decade of the current century I watched a talking head on TV ask President Bush if homosexuality was a choice. At that time our popular information media, misunderstanding the science as they usually do, were pushing the narrative that homosexuality was genetically