Malcolm Gladwell’s book entitled Blink was on the bestseller list for a long time, and for good reason. It was amazing to most people that humans can do so much decision-making wholly outside the realm of consciousness, and outside the realm of what we usually think of as “reason.” Yet, these quick decisions, these...

What’s up with Peak Oil? “Peak oil” is a topic that is slowly starting to make it’s way into the common consciousness of the American public. Briefly, peak oil is all about the idea that the world is quickly depleting it’s most easily accesible supplies of crude oil. The term “peak” comes from the...

Since April I have been driving nearly every workday from my home in San Antonio to my current work location in Austin, via IH-35. This portion of IH-35 is very full of traffic, and there is an almost continuous ribbon of cities and businesses all along the corridor. The San Antonio-Austin corridor has the...

The Democratic party’s chances of gaining any seats in the Congress this November, or of winning the presidency in 2008, are pretty much nil, in my opinion. Democrats have failed to come up with any sort of cohesive message that will appeal to voters, and we can’t discount the Karl Rove effect, the fact...

Back in 1986, I purchased what at that time was an absolutely wonderful, modern, and advanced piece of computer hardware: a Tandy TRS-80 Model 102. The thing was nothing more than a small box with a wonderful, full-size keyboard and a small LCD screen. It did a few things very well, one of which...

There is a wonderful article posted at EnergyBulletin.net, entitled The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse written by Krassimir Petrov. Among other things, this article puts into perspective the real reasons the Bush administration decided to go to war against Iraq. It turns out that in 2000 Saddam wanted to begin accepting euros for oil, instead...