[image source] Maybe collapsed is not the right word - how about "fallen off a cliff"? From where I am sitting, rational egoism/self-interest is the shadow wound of American culture, the one from which we are bleeding to death. A society built on me-first self-interest - the kind of crap espoused by...

I’m not a practising economist, but I did read an economics course at university, along with psychology. Because of it, I’m probably slightly better equipped to understand what’s going on now than the average Jo(e). The word “slightly” is important here because it means...

I am looking forward. . . . On the bus home from Philadelphia a few weeks ago, I had an Important Insight.  It was an insight borne of decades of driving and my last couple of academic gigs, which (because of their locations far from airports) have entailed traveling in shuttles and buses and v...

David Brooks has been getting a lot of flak for this column (which is a follow up from this one a week earlier). We [moderates] sympathize with a lot of the things that President Obama is trying to do. … But the Obama budget is more than just the sum of its parts. There is, entailed in it, a p...

"Global warming" is really taking its toll on us down here in tropical Southern Maryland, as we started getting sleet around noon yesterday that turned into a snow storm by nightfall and didn't let up until a good foot of snow was on the ground this morning. Considering I'm origina...

Think of this as Volume 12, Number 9 of A-Clue.com, the online newsletter I've written since 1997. Enjoy. At ZDNet Healthcare I get this kind of crap all the time: obama is a liar and traitor to his oath of office. dems are traitors to the US Constitution, helped by RINOs. the world will pay the pri...

Today, there's another video of a college kid wailing while being arrested. We never thought it would come to this, but we're officially sympathizing with cops. Let's review the concept of "Police brutality," kids: The kid in this video is College of New Jersey student Michael Tracey, who's being ar...

. CONSERVATIVE CANT GETS OLD BURKE'S LAW IS NO LONGER VALID YOUTUBE: MSNBC "State Of The Union | Barack Obama" A rousing rebuttal to the Right, after forty years of failure from them. Same Tired Two Hundred Year Old Tory Twaddle Is All The Right Wing Has To Offer The Great-Grandad of all conservativ...

. CONSERVATIVE CANT GETS OLD BURKE'S LAW IS NO LONGER VALID YOUTUBE: MSNBC "State Of The Union | Barack Obama" A rousing rebuttal to the Right, after forty years of failure from them. Same Tired Two Hundred Year Old Tory Twaddle Is All The Right Wing Has To Offer The Great-Grandad of all conservativ...

Gordon Brown’s new back-to-the-future idea is to introduce “old fashioned banking” again to the High Street. After all, banks lend out other people’s money, so should be careful where they put it. He will “ban” 100 percent mortgages, make borrowers save up their d...