Advice & Dissent: 2012

Jan5

What Scrooge's 3 ghosts can teach about US Economy

This holiday season, the American public and economy could benefit from being visited by three ghosts - or at least one politician willing to assume their role as blunt bearers of bad news as well as hope for a brighter future. When Ebenezer Scrooge asks the Ghost of Christmas…Read More
Jan30

No moon base by 2020 made simple

Reaction to Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's proposal that, "By the end of my second term we will have the first permanent base on the Moon with commercial near-Earth activities that include science, tourism, and manufacturing," has tended either to be whether it's a good…Read More
Apr5

A Good Friday to Remember -- The rather dramatic story of my near-fatal car crash off a cliff

Good Friday, April 17, 1992: I'd just started a great job at Investor's Business Daily in Los Angeles, and two weeks earlier I'd purchased the car of my dreams, a beautiful, blue Toyota MR2 Turbo. To me, at least, it looked like a small Ferrari. It was fast and sleek. I was…Read More

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