Monthly Archives: July 2010

Here’s another video showing how the information age is challenging centralized power and control, including highly organized and corrupt power and control: Russia’s YouTube cop (New York Times video story) Does anyone else see the pattern here?  It’s all connected.

Last week my wife and I toured Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson.  I think the author of our Declaration of Independence would appreciate the radical freedom of information and checks on overly-powerful government being promoted by a growing effort … Continue reading →

Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave is an essential book for understanding the dramatic social shifts of our time.  In 1980, he predicted and even described Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube with amazing accuracy (without calling them by name of course)! One … Continue reading →

Sandwiched in between the Fourth of July and an upcoming trip to Washington DC, my wife and I sat down to watch a wonderful PBS documentary on Thomas Jefferson.  (Thank you Netflix!) No other man so effectively captured the Spirit … Continue reading →

There appears to be a trend among government officials lately to use the phrase “freedom of worship” instead of “freedom of religion” in their speeches.  Chuck Colson provides a very good commentary on why this is a dangerous trend.  The … Continue reading →