Freedom of the Press

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: From an early age we were taught that one of the unique values for our country is “Freedom of the Press.” Of course, from the time of this country’s inception, until very recently, freedom of the press was only available for the privileged few … Read more

Gasification – Part 1

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: This conversation with Dr. Richard Bates describes the process of gasification. His doctoral thesis was brought to my attention awhile back. Rather than me doing some injustice trying to summarize it, the good doctor has consented to break it down for us. At this … Read more

The Most Profitable Study

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: The concept of God as a Father did not originate with Jesus, Even so, any effort to study his life and teachings will reveal that he exalted and elevated the idea while advancing a more meaningful revelation of God and by proclaiming that every … Read more

Pandemicide

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: Sir Francis Galton introduced the term “eugenics,” meaning well-born, in 1883. His emphasis was on encouraging healthy and capable people, of above-average intelligence, to bear more children, with the idea of building an “improved” human race. The eugenics ideologies that are typically associated with … Read more

Amping Up the Blame Shift

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: What happens when you combine an embarrassment of riches with managerial incompetence? You get opportunity squandered and systemic failures together with prevarications and blame-shifting. If only the Electric Reliability Council of Texas could somehow convert the prevarications and blame-shifting of state officials into useful … Read more

Wings Are a Little Thin

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: While binge watching a TV series called Numbers, I was enjoying the sibling rivalry of the two brothers that are the main characters. One is a mathematics professor and the other is a kind of swashbuckling FBI agent. As the swashbuckler enters the professor’s … Read more

Between Wishy and Washy

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: On February 13th 2021, a pathetic minority of United States Senators landed decisively somewhere between wishy and washy on the question of autocracy versus democracy. As they were feigning reverence for the Constitution of the United States, they inadvertently highlighted the most fundamental problem facing … Read more

Be You Perfect!

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: In her 2013 book, Farmacology, Daphne Miller, MD makes a compelling case that gut flora is linked to soil tilth. In one chapter she describes her encounter with a rodeo ridin’ Missouri cattle rancher and his conversion from all things antithetical to tree hugging. … Read more

Liberty T/F

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Full Transcript: I remember watching cartoons during my early childhood. One character in particular made a lasting impression on me due to the confused look he had on his face as an angel was whispering in one ear and the devil was whispering in the other. … Read more

Intentional Consumerism

Listen to the Audio and/or Subscribe to the Podcast Intentional Consumerism is, first and foremost, about expressing consumer preferences that are informed by the behaviors of those with whom we do business. It is how we vote every day with every dollar we spend. It is how we move towards a promising future, with each … Read more