As we helplessly watch the spreading brown ooze soak into the porous sands of the Gulf coast courtesy of BP, the encroaching spill should at the same time be seeping into our collective consciousness, goading us into redirecting our national energy strategy away from carbon and toward sustainability. The crisis in the Gulf of...
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The State Board of Education (SBOE) in Texas has jumped into the abyss of the absurd, modifying school textbooks with an ideology so extreme as to be nearly beyond comprehension to any rational mind. Just as the twisted metal of a fatal plane crash is the focus of investigation to determine what went wrong, so too must the carnage...
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If you were never born, you would never die. Therefore birth is not simply the leading cause of death, but the only one. Everything else is a statistical detail of where and when, with each day bringing to us a new set of end-game probabilities. Fortunately, we have the ability to influence those daily odds, however slightly,...
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By now everybody but one tribesman deep in Borneo’s heartland knows that the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled nearly 10 percent in just a few minutes on May 6, 2010. During the chaotic collapse of almost 1000 points some stocks dropped to near zero value.

Color me simply shocked that hubris, greed, wishful...
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The Republican Party once was the proud defender of the rule of law, regularly disparaging wimpy Democrats who lacked the backbone to protect society from the criminal element. Remember, Republican hero Ronald Reagan ran for president on the platform of law and order, labeling his opponents “weak on crime” when concerned...
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I had the honor and pleasure of meeting Arianna Huffington at a recent event in Austin, Texas, sponsored by the Texas Freedom Network (TFN), an organization dedicated to fighting right wing extremism in the Lone Star State. The discussion focused on the lunacy of the current Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), which is attempting...
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