Category Archives: Leadership

Democracy OR Capitalism?

Democracy and Capitalism are two very big ideas. Democracy is an idea about a method people can use to govern themselves. Capitalism is an idea about how some people think we should produce and distribute wealth among people.
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New Year’s Resolutions Predictions 2012

I did my first New Year’s Resolution blog back in 2010, resolving that we as a nation should set ourselves to work increasing goodness rather than misery. My resolution didn’t take. Since then, we’ve done more warring. Wealth differentials have … Continue reading

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What Learning Is

Your knowing of the world is not “inside your head”! There’s no hard drive in your skull—no root directory nor subdirectories in which binary files filled with tomes of knowledge are stored.
What a silly idea!
As counter-intitive as it sounds, the … Continue reading

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Deming’s System of Profound Knowledge (SoPK)

Even if you are not involved in business management and know and care nothing about the ideas of the great teacher, Dr. W. E. Deming , the following discussion of what he resorted in his later years to calling, a … Continue reading

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Here’s the smell of blood, still

December 22, 2011, NYT, BAGHDAD — A wave of coordinated explosions ripped across Baghdad early on Thursday, killing at least 63 people, wounding more than 180 and jolting a country already unsettled by a deepening political crisis and the absence … Continue reading

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A Fine Mess We’ve Gotten Ourselves Into

It’s the “holiday season”; a time when we hunker down around the fire and do a lot of story telling with each other. All over the world people are recounting the Christmas story of the birth of the baby Jesus … Continue reading

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Reality Doesn’t Make Deals

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
In an article in today’s NYT Dot Earth section, “Naomi Klein’s Inconvenient Climate Conclusions” Andrew Kevkin shares his e-converstation with Klein. The … Continue reading

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The Wrong Story

Apropos of my post yesterday on the perils of nuclear power—a form of extreme energy production—Naomi Klein gives a wonderfully lucid explanation of how our dominant cultural story of an infinitely abundant world that will tolerate our most extreme efforts … Continue reading

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Insurgency American Style

James Fallows at the Atlantic magazine is a bit outraged by the disproportionate aggression by police against non-violent UC Davis demonstrators. He suggests the we need to train our police to use more appropriate methods.
It seems to me that war is … Continue reading

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Fall Lines

I have started following NPR’s 13.7: Cosmos and Culture blog, primarily because Alva Noe is a contributor. Noe is the author of the book “Out of Our Heads” that impressed me greatly and I discussed in my entry “Dancing Feet” … Continue reading

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SS Zombie

I have commented recently on this blog that zombieism is responsible for the tragic unraveling of Western society. As students of zombieism know, among the many disgusting characteristics of zombies, one looms largest—their monomaniacal single-mindedness. Once zombies fix themselves on … Continue reading

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Which Comes First, the Public or the Private Sector?

Okay, okay! Some of you who have read my previous blog entry are thinking to yourselves that my explanation of private v. public begs the question of the which comes first, public or private jobs?
Allow me to give you a … Continue reading

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Prey Takes Stand Against Predators (At last!)

The 99 Percenters are trying.
In today’s American food chain, 99% of us are the prey and 1% are the predators. The predators have become masters of the science of breeding and managing their prey. They work hard to keep their … Continue reading

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Sell-O-Bama Talking Points

Okay everyone, I want you to know that I am getting really, really scared now and you should be getting scared too!
It is looking more and more likely that the new breed of tea party-ish Republicans will take over the … Continue reading

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U.S. Poverty Rate, at 15 Percent, Is the Highest Since 1993

NYT, WASHINGTON  — The percentage of Americans living in poverty last year rose to the highest level since 1993, the Census Bureau reported Tuesday, fresh evidence that the disappointing economic recovery has done nothing for the country’s poorest citizens.
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