Engaging Life with Courage and Intelligence
Sociologists and anthropologists call it cultural lag. As a rule of thumb, it takes 20 years for a new technology or transformative policy to be embraced by a society. Some early adopters embrace the change almost immediately. For some strange reason, the early adopters are younger than the older laggards. Americans are facing so many…
Artificial Intelligence is the new gold rush in the world economy. Investors and governments are salivating and promising all sorts of benefits and riches coming from AI. AI is a significant technology, but before we become intoxicated by all the hype, let’s take a breath and think about our collective actions. Virtually everyone will be…
Mike Johnson, the smooth-talking Congressman from Louisiana, is our nation’s 56th Speaker of the House. He entered Congress on January 3, 2017. Before then, he served in the Louisiana legislature and worked for a conservative Christian group called the Alliance Defending Freedom. The four most vulnerable states due to the Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Act,…
President Trump recently called in the cavalry to rescue Washington, DC. A member of his DOGE squad (aka, Big Balls…that’s what Trump calls him) was mugged, and Trump had an excuse to call in the National Guard to make Washington safe again. He claimed he has a mandate to reduce the violent crimes in this…
I have visited the Rust Belt many times. I drove through Youngstown, Ohio, in 1970 and 2005. I have seen whole neighborhoods bulldozed. The same thing happened in Michigan and other Rust Belt states. I understand the pain and the loss. So, what happened? America still produces lots of mechanical and industrial engineers. We still…
Beliefs about Artificial Intelligence How does everyone feel about artificial intelligence (AI)? AI has been around since the mid-1950s. I asked my tech guru in the 1970s to define AI, and he responded, “It’s using a computer to do things we haven’t done before.” In the beginning, one of the goals of AI was to…
The Ultimate Fighting Championship will host an event on the White House lawn on July 4, 2026, to honor the sacrifices of founding fathers like George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and John Madison. The fights will be conducted inside an octagon-shaped metal chain-link fence. The cage will be about thirty feet in diameter and…
Instead of “firing up” or improving American capitalism, President Trump is firing or humbling America’s CEOs. Instead of continuing or improving the capitalism that energized America for 250 years, Trump is transforming it into some version of state capitalism. Wikipedia defines state capitalism as “An economic system in which the state acts as a dominant…
UPDATE ON AUGUST 12, 2025: When I posted this article, I was drawing attention to the fact that we have a delusional, unprepared man meeting with the most evil, dangerous man in the world. Little did I know that my “humor” would hit so close to the truth. Many will say Trump’s misstatements are simple…
This is another iteration in the use of short videos to address or comment on the craziness of our times. Please let me know if you enjoy these videos and if you prefer videos over longer posts with more detailed analysis and discussion.