Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, spent $72,000,000,000 on artificial intelligence in 2025. In January 2026, Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Meta, fired his entire AI team. That is like buying a palace and then burning it down. Think what $72 billion could do to help the world. A recent Nov Tech article summarized Zuckerberg’s problem succinctly:…
With the twin themes of history and truth matters, this video explores the coming crisis posed by the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on American society. However, America has a strong tradition of resistance to collective action, which often leads to dysfunction and chaos. Paraphrasing Winston Churchill, America tries everything else before doing the…
There is an interesting correlation between the familial roots of U.S. Presidents and their behavior as presidents. Even in the beginning, the families of the first six presidents had been in colonial America for several generations. It is probably no coincidence that the rule is that American presidents have to be natural-born citizens. Of course,…
The flip-flopping TACO President is back in force. The TACO bell has rung. He will impose 1500% tariffs on countries he doesn’t like. Then, a few days later, we discovered he actually imposed 1.5% tariffs. Didn’t this man take basic arithmetic in school? The next day, he raised the tariffs to 15%. The following week,…
In the tradition of truth and history, this video examines the psychological connection between a boy with an out-of-control ego and his impact on the course of history. Abe Lincoln and Mark Twain introduce the video by asking why America suddenly wants to take over the peaceful and cooperative land of Greenland. Direct web address…
Ideologies and beliefs offer certainty. Reality offers consequences. In moments of stability, fixed belief systems can appear wise and efficient. But history shows a recurring pattern: when conditions change suddenly, ideology often fails — and reality takes over. In this Truth Matters episode, we examine three defining crises: 1) The Great Depression (1932), when economic…
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Who do you trust? For years, I have used Snopes, FactCheck, and PolitiFact to verify the numerous fraudulent internet claims sent to me by my diminishing conservative friends. My conservative friends are not getting physically smaller; they have stopped asking me for the verification of their “trusted” sources of information. Facts can get in the…
We all grew up either in a family or knew families in which truth was not their highest priority. When a family member failed a class in school, wrecked the family car, or was involved in a teen pregnancy, the grown-ups in the family swiftly moved into cover-up mode. With the talent unseen since the…
Shakespeare’s Hamlet dramatizes the tragedy associated with madness, paranoia, and deception. Unfortunately, all Americans have become unwilling actors in a similar tragedy. As an aside and to quote Polonius, “Though this be madness, yet there is method in ’t.” From day to day, the current administration spews nonsense, and more dangerously, acts in bizarre and…