Monthly Archives: May 2010

The following video contains compelling content and an interesting delivery (high speed whiteboard animation): RSA Animate – Drive:  The surprising truth about what motivates us What’s interesting is the multiple studies showing that, for complex tasks, once a person makes … Continue reading →

Think about our presidential elections – almost everything associated with having an electoral college is now obsolete.  So why do we insist on selecting a group of individuals and sending them to a central location to make our decisions for … Continue reading →

“I’d rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University,” said William Bennett.  Well, why not, at least in concept? Random citizen selection … Continue reading →

Wow, I never thought I’d see this.  Obama the technophobe? Check out this excerpt from President Obama’s speech at the Hampton University commencement on May 9th: “With iPods and iPads; Xboxes and PlayStations [none of which I know how to … Continue reading →

Someone with a materialist world view – assuming the physical world is all there is – has a hard time imagining a spiritual reality, the concept of a spiritual relationship with God or a meaningful spiritual community.   This assumption, that … Continue reading →

One of the most overlooked scholars of history is George Washington. You too?  Stumbled over the word scholar, didn’t you?  I know, I had for years a tough time thinking of Washington as anything other than a shadowy figurehead of … Continue reading →

Sometime in the history of our culture, religion became a bad word.  Even devout evangelicals embrace sayings like, “Christianity is not a religion, it’s a relationship.”  Hearing this decades ago, I smiled in approval at how hip it sounded.  Or … Continue reading →

Few people know the two changes made to the Pledge of Allegiance in the last hundred years.  By the way, if you haven’t read my prior post (The Tale of Three Countries), please do.  I have come to appreciate these … Continue reading →

Just a few decades ago, youth filled the streets, protesting against the hollow emptiness of their society and their government, sparking a flurry of social and political change.  In the years since that internal conflict, the country has gone through … Continue reading →