How did the Debt get so big? How did it become so famous? And what are its future plans? I sat down with the National Debt last week to see if I could find some answers.

  It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than to believe what is wrong. ~Thomas Jefferson   So here we are, about a week away from a huge decision.  Of course we’ve already delayed this “monumental decision” twice, so I guess it’s not [...]

Would the real Bill Maher please stand up? Who is he? I want to know. Is he a comedian or a political pundit? Is he a Progressive (as he claims he is), a libertarian (as he’s been on record in the past as saying) or a closet Republican (he did [...]

All this talk about cutting and ceilings and limitations can make one feel a bit cramped. We should be talking and thinking about reaching for something, about America becoming something greater not smaller. So this weekend’s theme is, “The Sky’s the Limit”, taken literally or figuratively. Songs about the skies [...]

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. ~B. F. Skinner   The year is 2110. IBM has just completed work on the most advanced A.I.(Artificial Intelligence), in history. At 12:10 P.M. the A.I. is loaded onto servers. 12:12 P.M., it makes contact with the world [...]

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Reid insisted in 2010 that delaying the debt ceiling vote would ensure that the Republicans would own part of the responsibility. And so we find ourselves on the brink of disaster.

Help end the debt ceiling crisis by suggesting to John Boehner, a more effective and appropriate movie clip to play in his next meetings with Republicans to bring them on board.

People are living longer. Just look at the number of ex-Presidents we have living yet. There are four, and I can’t remember when so many ex-leaders of the country have been alive and compos mentis. There have always been ex-Presidents who lived beyond their term of office. Herbert Hoover, Harry [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, July 27, 2011

There is a difference between the debt and the deficit. Both Social Security & Medicare can and do contribute to the DEFICIT, but not the DEBT. These items should absolutely be off the table in these discussions because they really do NOT represent anything relevant. Any attempt to delude the [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, July 26, 2011

The entire world is watching. So let’s seize this moment to show why the United States of America is still the greatest nation on Earth –- not just because we can still keep our word and meet our obligations, but because we can still come together as one nation.

Terrorism is defined as, “”The systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion.” So is the GOP.

Uncertainty, something every business person has talked about ad nauseum. What does Uncertainty really mean, that wages will go up for women? That they might have to buy affordable health care? That taxes might go up because business has not payed taxes in the first place? The term has been undefined, but [...]

News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, July 25, 2011

Take a break and get away from it all to familiar and exotic musical places in this weekend’s Music Thread.

When I was a junior in high school, in the middle of Richard Nixon’s first term, I took a course in civics. Back then, this was required of all high school students, usually taken in their junior or senior year. Our civics course was simply entitled “U S and Comparative [...]

    It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. ~Charles Darwin   Well, here we go. Evolution. What is it and how did we get to the evolutionary theory we [...]

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News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, July 22, 2011

      A good portion of speaking will consist in knowing how to lie. ~Desiderius Erasmus Welcome back to a new chapter of Exploring Morality. In this chapter we will be discussing truth, lies, and deception. A complex subject full of grey areas. Again I will try to keep [...]

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