The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Thanks to Elliot for passing this op ed piece my way.
That quality work force was the single biggest reason the U.S. emerged as the economic superpower of the 20th century. Generation after generation, American workers were better educated, more industrious and more innovative than the ones that came before.
That progress stopped about 30 years ago.
On [...]

Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters is perhaps the most insightful article I’ve read about the current presidential race. In a race full of baby boomer politicians–Clinton, McCain, Guiliani–why does Obama seem to stick out so much? It’s not that he’s black. I don’t even think that it’s about the Politics [...]

Bizaar. Thanks for the link, Nova.

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
An excellent article from the Old Grey Lady about the state of our diet in America. It’s a retrospective on food science and studies from the last 30 years, and is as liberating as it is enlightening. One choice paragraph from near the beginning of the lengthy [...]

Or, at least that’s what I might say if my blood were radioactive enough to set off security detectors. Around 60,000 Americans are currently under various types of medical treatments in which they receive small amounts of radiation, enough to set off radiation detectors such as those that might be used to screen for [...]

Dignified in demeanor, independent in ideology and frequently blue in blood, they were politicians in the mold of Roosevelt and Rockefeller: socially tolerant, environmentally enthusiastic, people who liked government to keep its wallet close to its vest and its hands out of social issues like abortion and, in recent years, same-sex marriage.
But this election dealt [...]

An excellent article on how corn and sugar subsidies provided to industry by the US government are keeping us reliant on foreign oil. Great, short, important read.

I don’t mean to make any connection to the Connecticut senator’s politics, as I actually don’t mind the guy, but this is just awesome.

The US government, in its valiant attempt to stem the invasion of our country by the imperial Mexican Empire to the south (sarcasm intended), is now getting ordinary citizens involved. The government has begun testing a website that allows ordinary citizens to monitor the border from the Mexican-free safety of their own bedrooms/basements/offices. [...]

This report on a clearly subjective list of the dumbest congressmen is pretty frightening. The elite in America are definitely not those writing its laws, sadly.