The world goes on, Leaving me further behind. Can we pause change. Photo is of a very large painting in the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas in 2011 Poem was written by me when I was trying to make an onli...Read More
Last year eight million people moved from one state to another in the USA. We accept that as the way things are and adjust. But a half million people move here from Mexico and we get so mad we can’t...Read More
“The world is much better. The world is awful. The world can be much better.” Three sentences that seem contradictory but are not. All three can be true. I tend to focus on the first. Many people ...Read More
“Crime is a regressive tax on poor people.” The best way to fight crime is to flood the area with police. Fear of being caught deters most crime. Overfund the police and loosen up the rule...Read More
I have used this cabinet for the last few years as a changing exhibit of our collections that don’t normally get enough attention. It has included glass objects, paper weights, baskets, tins, qu...Read More
Subscribe to The Rational Optimist Newsletter. Be reminded that technology is as important as politics in your life. And the technology is wonderful....Read More
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” Attributed to Ralph Waldo Em...Read More
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that’s pretty important.“ Martin Luther King Jr...Read More