Kinetic Thought

Obama: Imus Equates to the Virginia Tech Massacre??? Barack Obama today took the honor of being the first demagogue to cynically and opportu...

Or Is Global Warming Just An Easy Scapegoat? Yesterday I posted a commentary on how Hurricane Katrina should be a wakeup call for global wa...

Can We Afford To Deny Global Warming Any Longer? The fury and devastation of Hurricane Katrina is unmistakeable . The extraordinarily warm w...

Going Tribal One of the best shows on television today is the Discovery Channel's " Going Tribal ". The synopsis is Bruce Parr...

I received the following frothy comment on my case for keeping the estate tax for the super wealthy and thought I would share my response ...

The Week of 8/8/05 I've received a few emails asking why KT has not been updated lately. I am on vacation this week, so keep checking ba...

A Science Education 'Manhattan Project' A while back Tom Friedman wrote an excellent piece ( Losing Our Edge? ) on the crisis the US...

Losing Our Edge? Another good one from Tom Friedman on the dangers the US faces by slipping behind in math, science, and engineering educati...

Too Much Pork and Too Little Sugar Tom Friedman on the energy bill, and a link here on as some of my ideas on the dangers of foreign oil de...

The Creativity Economy An excellent piece from the Athena Alliance based on an article in Business Week. Excerpts: The Knowledge Economy as ...

Media Learning Lessons We Find in Modern War Speaking of Viacom's plans to split into two companies - one a growth company comprised of ...

Religion Strikes Again Israel soldier lynched after killing four in Gaza pullout row A teenage Israeli soldier shot dead four people in a bl...

E Pur Si Muove! It is a sad day for fans of liberty and students of science when the President of the United States publicly endorses teachi...

Death Row Kamikazes Suicide bombers will always have tactical advantage since traditional deterrents, e.g. shooting them, do not work since ...

Al-Qaida Websites Taken Down My only question is, "Why the hell did we not do this sooner?" From Britain's The Sunday Times : ...

France Grows Some Cojones Though instead of sending them back to their respective bastions of extremism, would it not make more sense to thr...

Singularity People who embrace futuristic thinking well beyond their time run the risk of being labeled a 'nut'. Suggesting the Eart...

The World Nakheel, a real estate developer in United Arab Emirates, is building a series of 300 man-made islands called The World off the co...

China Stocks Nukes as Anti-US Tactic It seems China has started an arms war - though similar to the genocide in Darfur, we are reluctant to ...

Shoot to Kill It was a horrible tragedy that British police shot to death a man who turned out to be an innocent Brazilian they thought was ...

A Muslim Double Standard? A common complaint from the Middle East is there is a double standard in the West for victims of terrorism. When I...

China Trying to Pull the Wool? China seeks soften image with U.S. - UPI, Jul. 28, 2005 at 9:38AM China has embarked on an image-polishing ca...

The Most Painful Press Conference If you did not catch it on C-Span or already read the transcript here , Scott McClelland's press confe...

The Destiny of Man The Earth is the cradle of humankind, but one cannot live in the cradle forever. - Konstantin E. Tsiolkovsky, The 'Fa...

Deterrence at Work More evidence that deterrence works , even with stateless psychotics like terrorists and murderous drug kingpins. Apparen...

More Abortions = Less Crime? I think the concept of abortion is appalling. I also find appalling the concept of unwanted children who are bo...

Who Wouldn't Fall for Such a Clever Trick? PALERMO, Italy (Reuters) - An Italian couple stole 50,000 euros from a woman in the Sicilian ...

Itstrenenig Rscheearch This has been floating around the Internet for a while. If you have not already seen it, it is pretty cool: "Aoc...

And Some Not So Good News From London A horrifying development on Friday's shooting in the Tube, sure to be a step backwards for the eff...

Taliban Taking a Pounding Encouraging news out of Afghanistan (encouraging that the Taliban/Qaida may actually be in 'last throes', ...

Who Brought the Nearsighted Kid to the Pool? Justin Gardner's post on Donklephant showing Chelsea Davis' impact with a diving board...

With Friends Like This We are fortunate to have allies like Australian PM John Howard and Tony Blair. Too bad continental western Europe see...

More Hope, Less Tragedy in London Yesterday and today's attempted attacks in London should offer additional hope for the West. Prior to ...

Boss Tweed Lives It appears the spirit of Boss Tweed lives in Chicago's City Hall .

A Sino-Suicide Pact? Thomas Friedman with an incisive piece on our dangerous lock-step with China, particularly timely in light of these rep...

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room If you have not seen this movie , you should. While it captures the worst in human nature and the dange...

Raising the Stakes for the Terrorists Representative Tom Tancredo made a reckless comment today that should terrorists succeed in hitting th...

This is How We Are Going to Win the War on Terror While we need to be killing or capturing every last one of the cowardly thugs who wish to ...

Clinton for Secretary General? After President Clinton left office in 2001 there was intermittent talk about him angling for Kofi Annan'...

Communists and Fascists Made America Great America owes a great debt to communists and fascists. Not because they gave us ideology and techn...

Terrorism's Fuel It seems all al-Qaida recruits share something in common - they are all failures in the Western world in which they ha...

Has the Beginning of the End of 'Martyrdom' Begun? The world, and more specifically the British, response to yesterday's cowardl...