This month’s top ten discussion topics
The Top Ten change on the first of every month!
AI Exasperation
The only thing more prevalent in our news feeds lately than President Trump are articles and commentaries on AI, and most people I know are exasperated by both. I’ve seen people heave a big sigh, their countenance drooping when the subject of AI comes up. “Not AI!”...
Dolly Parton
CBS Sunday morning tells me that if Popularity determined the Presidency, as many people believe it should, Dolly Parton would have been our President, the most popular personality by far, 70% approval rating. It should have been 100!
The Next Civil War
The existential conflicts that drove us to war in 1860 are the same as the existential conflicts dividing us today. Slavery has been abolished, thankfully, but nothing else has changed. The conflict that divides us works itself out in various ways: an emotional...
Randomize the Presidency
Take the average person! He or she could do the job! Proposed: Everybody says they want to get the politics out of Governance! So, why don’t we?!?! As a thought experiment, consider the last 10 presidents: Trump, Biden, Obama, G W Bush, Clinton, G H Bush, Reagan,...
The Flattened Tax
The biggest problem we Americans face, other than the fact that we can’t seem to get along with each other, is tax code. No matter how you configure taxes, a lot of people will be left feeling unsatisfied and unhappy. AI tells me that 30 to 40 percent of Americans...
The Montana Plan
Hawaii’s Governor recently signed Senate Bill 2471 (Act 11) into law with massive, historic bipartisan support. Hawaii has officially become the first state to strip corporations, LLCs, and even politically active nonprofits of their power to spend money influencing...
The Civil War
Allow me to begin with a preliminary rant about education: The problem is that The Lights do not go on for everybody at the same time. For instance, the Light my hard-working history teachers wanted to show me pertaining to the American Civil War remained unnoticed by...
AI for Education
Josh Tyrangiel figuratively divides most of us based on our reactions to the advent of AI Technology: Accelerationists or Doomers. Accelerationists push for unbridled AI usage. Doomers foretell of AI’s destruction of all that we humans value. The truth, of course,...
AI Derangement Syndrome
I don’t use Generative AI to do my creative writing or my thinking about what I should write. I don’t use Generative AI at all! To make my personal stance on AI clear, if you do use Generative AI in those ways, you should burn in Hell! That’s In My Opinion. Putting...
Work Force Reduction
AI represents a very real existential threat to our current way of life, but the benefits of AI will outweigh the problems, unless, of course, you are the one being replaced. The AI dynamic has two facets: AI displacement—where AI takes jobs from humans outright, and...