Archive for August, 2009

Modeling

Monday, August 31st, 2009

You know, as I take these trips and interact with my three Sweetie Pies, I recognize the enormous level of responsibility I have to fashion their lives and their futures. Jordan and Jared watch me like hawks. No matter what I say, at any particular time, they are watching what I do. I give them [...]

Fragment

Friday, August 28th, 2009

In 1905, Einstein supplanted Newton’s mechanical view of the universe with a new foundation for physics which connected space and time as well as matter and energy. Einstein in a textbook authored: “A new concept appeared in physics, the most important invention since Newton’s time: the field. It needed great scientific imagination to realize that [...]

Brown Eyes Softly

Wednesday, August 26th, 2009

Since I began my professional career (in 1981), I’ve written a poem for Christmas. Because I’ve had associates who have now become friends and family with me over the years, I continued until 2007 the tradition of writing a poem which I would read each year at the Christmas party. 2007 was a difficult year [...]

A Whole Foods approach to health care

Tuesday, August 25th, 2009

Kathleen Parker is talking about an article which was written by John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market and published as an op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal. She is pointing out the enormous irony of having supporters of President Obama’s health care compendium at odds with Mr. Mackey’s common sense self-deterministic approach to [...]

Conscious Evolution

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

When there were less than 10,000 specimens of Homo-Sapiens in the entire world, it was sufficient that we were the result of evolutionary processes; we were not involved in the evolutionary process and certainly not in any conscious way. By the time of Darwin, the population of Homo-Sapiens on the earth was something in the [...]

President Obama as Messiah

Monday, August 17th, 2009

The forms of political structure and types of economic orders play second fiddle to the fundamental tenets of human dignity. We tend to argue in favor of democracy because we know it, as a political order, to probably be the closest we have ever seen to the fundamental tenet of freedom and free choice, an [...]