Those of you who might not want to think that we are no less a part of earthly life than are rodents and roaches, mites and maggots, as well as those of you who might want to go on believing that somehow we stand apart, pure and good, God’s highest handiwork, might consider the following [...]
Archive for February 2009
Hardly untouched and unblemished
February 14, 2009Darwin at 200
February 12, 2009On the occasion of Darwin’s 200th. Would that all our ideas bore such fruit. “Perhaps one day we will not call evolution “Darwinism.” After all, we do not call classical mechanics “Newtonism.” But that raises the question of whether a biological Einstein is possible, someone who demonstrates that Darwin’s theory is a limited case. What [...]
Bailout? Best would be more H-1B visas.
February 11, 2009In my last post I wondered what, if anything, our stimulus bent President and Congressmen were stimulating to make our country more productive, because only new production, or GNP growth, will provide new wealth and along with it more jobs. As things now stand the jobs that the stimulus package would create will not be [...]
The stimulus ought at the very least to make us more productive
February 9, 2009What is it that makes a rice farmer in India, and therefore India itself, more productive — a toilet, food stamps, a rural clinic, a school, or a cell phone? Eric Bellman’s piece in today’s Wall Street Journal makes it clear that it’s the cell phone. A tractor might have been similarly effective but the [...]
John McCain, American hero
February 7, 2009During the current “stimulus” campaign John McCain has emerged once again as an American hero. The irony here is that his new American hero status comes from his Senate attempt to totally reject the “Buy American” position of certain democratic representatives from the industrial heartland of the country, which position became part of the House [...]
Pity the New President
February 5, 2009Here (go to: Dear President Obama) is the kind of nonsense (liberal nonsense?) that we’ve been living with much too long. If this sort of talk could only be dispelled from our endless educational chatter, and if only we could get onto the educational reality of our schools, then good things might begin to happen. [...]
Schooling like war is expensive
February 5, 2009I’ve just read a Boston Globe article, and learned therein that the Boston schools are facing big job cuts, in particular the loss of 900 positions including 403 teachers (out of some 6500 in the district). And I assume, given the dismal state of our economy, that this sort of thing is happening everywhere, most [...]
