This month’s top ten discussion topics
The Top Ten change on the first of every month!
The Problem with Chatgpt is not Chatgpt
Stop worrying about what Chat Bots will do to us. Start worrying about what we will do to ourselves using this new and emerging technology. The Bulimia Project asked image generators Dall-E 2, Stable Diffusion, and Midjourney to create the perfect female body...
American National Debt
The biggest victims of the current American government’s inability to compromise across the aisle is the American people because the country is drowning in debt. Talk about living beyond your means! Since 1960, Congress has raised the debt ceiling 78 times — 49 times...
Guns and Gun Violence
Many of the facts in this essay are taken from a researcher and writer named Colin Woodard who has written about cultural divisions within the United States and more recently in Politico about how these cultural differences affect gun violence in culturally distinct...
The Living Constitution
Not long after the Framers of the American Constitution created it the debate about how to change it began. The so-called Originalists argue that it is a sacred document and therefore not subject to any need for revision. Others believe instead that the Constitution...
Fox News and the Ray Epps Lie
Pictured are Marine veteran Ray Epps and his wife. Also pictured is their motor home. They were forced to sell their non-mobile home and hit the road because of death threats they received after Fox News and Tucker Carlson lied about Ray on National Television. CBS...
Fox versus Dominion Voting
Call me a boy scout; but if you can’t win fair and square, you don’t deserve to win. Dominion Voting machines has filed a defamation lawsuit for 1.6 billion dollars against Fox News and its parent company. Fox, as most of us know, undermined the belief in fair and...
Chat Bots on the Move
Google’s Bard is a generative and conversational AI chatbot, similar to ChatGPT and Bing Chat. One of these three or something very much like all three that we don’t know about yet will be a much more prominent feature in our upcoming lives and the lives of our...
Gun Debate
Leading up to the next presidential election America will have a renewed and vigorous debate about guns. This debate will not be easy and probably will not go well, because We Americans are not good at compromise, and gun control is certainly among the most...
Election 2024 Part Two
Pictured are some past candidates for the presidency. No one can accurately predict who the most viable candidates will be in 2024. Unfortunately, we can predict a partisan slug fest overflowing with negative campaign ads. Three weeks ago, I wrote part one of this...
Resurrecting McCain-Feingold
The last meaningful bipartisan legislation, McCain-Feingold, was passed in 2002 and it has been eviscerated, legislated against, and ignored ever since. Big Money’s undue influence on American economic spending and economic policy has been the result. The bailout of...









