You can’t stop politicians and lobbyists from acting like pigs at a trough. But in a democracy at least we have a chance to change the pigs regularly....Read More
A Hohokam petroglyph site near Badger Springs AZ Politics is applied ethics No matter how the election turns out today the Hohokam will still be gone and eventually so will we. From the archeological ...Read More
Piestewa Peak The election is tomorrow. I voted my heuristic with a caveat. The Kavanaugh hearings incensed me so much that I wasn’t able to vote for any Democrats this cycle. There was a Libe...Read More
It is Saturday and the election is on Tuesday but somewhere between 20% and 30% of the people have already voted. Is this good for democracy? On the one hand if voting is easier and more convenient pe...Read More
Voter Suppression and Voter Fraud. Are they real? This is a joke! Don’t take it seriously. People on the left are convinced that the right is trying to suppress the votes of the poor and less ed...Read More
About a week ago I heard a talking head say something to the effect that “this is the most important election in a generation.” I counter predict. After this election nothing much will cha...Read More
“Robert Rubin, a former Secretary of the United States Treasury, one of those who sign their names on the banknote you just used to pay for coffee, collected more than $ 120 million in compensat...Read More
I went over the November ballot with some friends and applied my new heuristic to some of the measures and candidates and it gave good insight. The heuristic I’m working with is that moving the ...Read More
“There exists a great deal of evidence that, from the time of the pharaohs, state officials looked after themselves and formed an interest group in many instances more influential than the prope...Read More