Dr. ESP NOTE: Today I am adding “Media” as a new category. I originally thought posts related to the media would fall under either “Politics” or “Culture.” However, the quality of coverage during this electoral cycle continues to raise so many questions I now feel they deserve their own category. The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution reads … Read more
In a previous life, I was a freelance photographer. In July 1976, I was working on a behind-the-scenes photo story about the Capital Centre, which had recently opened in Landover, Maryland. One of the inaugural events was a heavyweight championship fight between Muhammad Ali and Jimmy Young. I took this picture during the weigh-in. That is Ali’s … Read more
How many times have you heard a politician say, “Government needs to be run more like a business”? Unfortunately, every time the public sector has a chance to do exactly that, those same politicians suddenly have a change of heart. The latest example is the persistent failure of the Republican controlled Congress to support major investments in … Read more
The May 12 issue of Time Magazine included an article titled, “American Capitalism’s Greatest Crisis.” It included the following: A couple of weeks ago, a poll conducted by the Harvard Institute of Politics found something startling: only 19% of Americans ages 18 to 29 identified themselves as “capitalists.” In the richest and most market-oriented country in … Read more
It happened again this weekend. I guess the media never heard of “Occam’s Razor,” the problem solving principle which suggests, given a number of hypotheses, the one that requires the least assumptions is most preferable. In more modern terminology, it is much like the acronym KISS or “keep it simple stupid.” Yesterday, CNN reported on the … Read more