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Economics as a System
THE NATURE OF THE BEAST
Posted on Aug 27, 2010 | Last Updated Sep 10, 2010
Reducing the amount of voodoo economics by making economics less dogmatic and more transparent, and exposing seriously destructive, or unethical, or even criminal activities.
THE REZ, PALESTINE, AND...WHATEVER BECAME OF THE NEANDERTHALS? (Feb 2010)
Posted on Feb 25, 2010 | Last Updated Jun 9, 2010
a discussion of colonialism in history
Indian treaties, Zionism, Manifest Destiny, Trail of Tears, Sand Creek Massacre, Wounded Knee, end-times, eschatology, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Will of God
Health Plan Axioms
Posted on Jul 18, 2009 | Last Updated Jul 18, 2009
Basic system considerations
health insurance, Medicare, pulpwood, merchant marine, 1949, General Semantics, bureaucracies,
Rant on Our Times, With Reply
Posted on Jun 5, 2009 | Last Updated Jun 5, 2009
A dynamic of social evolution
politics, Jesse Jackson, old times, liberals, conservatives, Spokane, Spokesman-Review, Idaho
HEALTH CARE
Posted on Nov 11, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 11, 2008
Aspects of the issue
National health care, political slogans, conventional wisdom, health insurance, national comparisons, cultural elements
Jan Christiaan Smuts
Posted on Oct 31, 2008 | Last Updated Nov 3, 2008
a personality study of a conflicted genius
J.C. Smuts, psychology, personality study, history, South Africa, British Empire, Boer War, Louis Botha, cultural study, cosmology
Government, the Real World, and Politics
Posted on Oct 12, 2008 | Last Updated Oct 12, 2008
analysis and commentary, from a partly epistemological viewpoint
politics, real world, statistical analysis, modeling, labor analyses, modeling, analogs, the labor movement, merchant marine, ships' boiler rooms, seamen, Great Lakes, Great Depression, hobos
To Michelle Obama (02/21/08)
Posted on Feb 21, 2008 | Last Updated Apr 6, 2008
open letter
politics, government, Obama, McCain, Kosovo
ANYBODY DIS BLACE NEM JORJ WASHEENTON? (12/17/07)
Posted on Dec 17, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 7, 2008
Some Founding Fathers: a perspective
democracy; American Revolution; religion and government; slavery; George Washington; Thomas Jefferson; James Madison; political correctness; deism
American Politics (11/19/07)
Posted on Nov 18, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
A perspective on principles
Political principles, results, and voters
Med System (10/27/07)
Posted on Oct 26, 2007 | Last Updated Apr 12, 2008
cost of one medication
prescription drugs, the system, profiteering?