Who knew there are 14 food boards, presumably regulated by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that receive a billion dollars in taxpayer money to promote agri-business? Who knew these funds were used to stifle negative information about the quality of food products?  Agricultural ga

More than once, I’ve shared concerns that technology is reducing the number of jobs in our society and allowing money to pool in the hands of billionaires who use it to make decisions  better left to the community.  My solution is to disrupt the money pool and allow it to flow to

I made a comment on Face book the other day about closed primaries.  I don’t understand why people are so exorcised about them. The system isn’t new, having been practiced for decades.  Folks who want to participate in a primary register with the party of their choice and vote.

Recently, I read a woman’s blog in which she insisted  she would never, ever vote for Hillary Clinton.  Clinton, she insisted, was a liar and a bad, bad person.  I suggest anyone  interested in facts instead of drivel look here: (Click) Whatever the hard feelings, the time h

Recently, Susan Stoner, my co-host, and I taped a few book discussions with our guests for the next season of Just Read It. (Click)  Our shows are 10 minutes long, as we know people are busy.  But after the camera stops rolling, conversation continues, especially if we had differing

If you break out in a rash at the thought of genetically modified foods (GMO), read on.  A sweeping study  released by the National Academy of Science has concluded that GMO’s are as safe as any other food.  (“GMO’s: Safe to eat, says science,” The Week, June 3, 2016, p

Much has been said about Hillary Clinton’s support for the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya.  Some say she supported the action because she is “hawkish.”  But why overthrow a leader who’d started to cooperate with Europe and the United States?  On the surface, the poli

The central question for the upcoming election is: “How would the candidate, as President, bring our country together around a common vision for where we need to go as a nation and how we can get there?”  (“Stop Fighting, Start Fixing,” by Jon Huntsman Jr. and Joe Lieberman,

Thinking about Artificial Intelligence, Stephen Hawking warns, “One can imagine such technology outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand.” (“The End of Code,” by Jason Tanz,

As technology shrinks our world, rubbing differing cultures together with the force of colliding tectonic plates, human beings are facing an overwhelming question: Is it better “to give wide freedoms to differing subcultures to live as they wish, or to assert a universal standard of