This started out as a conversation on a social media site regarding universal health care. I want to be clear that I’m not “attacking” anyone I was talking to, or any of that…just acknowledging that the root of this video lies with a couple of conversations. In the first, a friend of a friend (and…

What Am I? Date: 2012-03-25 Source: lowgenius.net Original Text Pigeonholed A dear friend of mine asked me a question today that I think might help provide some genuine answers not only to who I am, but to what’s gone wrong with our political discourse. After constructing my answer on Facebook, I decided to blog it.…

I think I’m figuring out why I have such trouble with certain social aspects. Consider Milgram’s experiments on authority – in a nutshell, test subjects were induced to give what they believed to be highly painful (and if they were real, potentially fatal) electric shocks to “students” who answered questions improperly. Even when the “students”…

I think I’m figuring out why I have such trouble with certain social aspects. Consider Milgram’s experiments on authority – in a nutshell, test subjects were induced to give what they believed to be highly painful (and if they were real, potentially fatal) electric shocks to “students” who answered questions improperly. Even when the “students”…

Communism Never Existed Date: 2011-12-02 Source: lowgenius.net Original Text Original Text (I woke up in the middle of the night with a sore back and took a couple of over-the-counter pain killers, and sat down at the computer to wait for them to kick in. I found my daughter Amber, my friend Hanna from Finland,…

Radical Problems, Radical Solutions One man’s proposal to rebuild the American economy through national service programs Introduction It’s no secret that the US economy is in turmoil, and Americans are struggling.  Our manufacturing sector has been in decline for decades as jobs move overseas.  Our education system is falling in comparison to other countries.  Real…

Radical Problems, Radical Solutions One man’s proposal to rebuild the American economy through national service programs Introduction It’s no secret that the US economy is in turmoil, and Americans are struggling.  Our manufacturing sector has been in decline for decades as jobs move overseas.  Our education system is falling in comparison to other countries.  Real…

As I discuss throughout this site and elsewhere on the ‘net, I spent a huge part of my teen and young adult years as a drummer in my home town of Kalamazoo, Michigan.  As I grow longer in the tooth and the gray streaks in my hair and beard become ever-more resistant to the rejuvenating…

As I discuss throughout this site and elsewhere on the ‘net, I spent a huge part of my teen and young adult years as a drummer in my home town of Kalamazoo, Michigan.  As I grow longer in the tooth and the gray streaks in my hair and beard become ever-more resistant to the rejuvenating…

So a few weeks ago I did a show called “Ron Paul Is A Fraud.” I have to admit I was quite surprised by the response. It’s currently the most-watched and most-commented video I’ve ever done. I wasn’t expecting that. What I was expecting was the nature of the responses, all of which were very…