Celebrating Democracy
During the election season candidates put up signs on public right of ways to get your attention. Most people hate...
Category: Ideas
Selling Out
Foolish Ideas
“Some ideas are so foolish that only an intellectual could believe them, for no ordinary man could be such a...
Lessons from History
"That people do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of the lessons that history...
Grey Cars
If you are not different you don't exist. If you are too different you are scary. Battleship grey is the...
Writing Well
"When I am writing well, it’s as if nothing is going on at the intellectual level. It is all happening at the...
Traffic Circles Part Two
Last week I wrote a blog entry about traffic circles and my discovery of why I dislike them. Alert reader Andy B....
Traffic Circles
Bend, Oregon might be the traffic circle capital of the United States. We are in Bend so I’ve been driving...
Email Zero
Sometimes an impossible sounding idea becomes a wonderful reality. eMail Zero is such an idea. The idea is to get...
Group Think
“If you only read books that everyone else reads you will only think what everyone else thinks.” Fran...
A Door
“A book isn’t supposed to be a mirror. It’s supposed to be a door!” Fran...
