This month’s top ten discussion topics
The Top Ten change on the first of every month!
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...
Cultural Erasures
One thing I learned from my, as yet unfinished, road trip excursion is the value of podcasts. I assume everybody is saying, “Duh!” and that I am very late to this discovery. Anyway, I recommend, for one, Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History. A hallmark of Malcolm...
Travels with AI
Missive 11, Sunday, March 22: I went into this odyssey with hope and expectation to uncover some basic truths about myself and human nature, and I think I can say that the journey, so far, has been rewarding for both of those objectives. As to myself, I have learned...
Tolstoy
Tolstoy The last of the big winter storms is passing through. Preparations have been on-going, and I will be on the road one week from today. Tolstoy ran away from home at the age of 82. He walked out the door without saying goodbye due, it has been said, to “deep...
Lyndon Baines Johnson
People on the Left and the Right see only what they want to see in American history. It is inconvenient to acknowledge that there have always been two sides to the equation. On the afternoon of January 1, 1863, President Lincoln, remarking that his hand was tired...