Democracy, The Resistance and civ.works American democracy is perilously close to being relegated to a footnote in history and recognized as a failed yet interesting attempt.
Healthcare Repeal, Tax "Reform" and Wealth Inequality From my perspective there are a couple of forms of wealth. One is the product of creating significant value through research, innovation, high-risk and subsequently reward. Wealth and value creation through this method generally rewards investors, executives and in a business that is structured well -also creates wealth for its
GOP, Wealth and Climate There is a fundamental problem with "adapting" to climate change as former ExxonMobil CEO (and now Secretary of State Rex Tillerson) states in an article from five years back when he describes all of us as stupid and the press as lazy. The issue is economics. Not everyone
The Glaring Flaw in James Damore's Memo on Bias ("Google's Ideological Echo Chamber") James Damore, Ex-Google Engineer James Damore was terminated from Google on August 7, 2017 after publishing his July, 2017 memo about bias at Google titled "Google's Ideological Echo Chamber -how bias clouds our thinking about diversity and inclusion". I have some experience with publishing famous (infamous?
The launch of civ.works We believe that our society is too often divided into political teams, polarized and paralyzed. We see a wave of negative political ads, stories of corruption, and simply tune them out in an effort to disenfranchise ourselves. We see government—not as a group of people that represent us—but
Once more unto the breach, dear friends As we struggle with an effective way forward there are critical areas I will be working to address -and am happy to collaborate with all that believe as I do (regardless of political ideology) -that the incoming Executive Branch represents a clear and present danger to America and the world.
Wake the f*ck up America ... With the CIA report about Russia hacking both Democrats and Republican servers (but only releasing Hillary/Democrats email), Trump imploring Russia to hack Hillary's emails, Trump's former campaign chair Paul Manafort's ties to Russia and reporting of Trump computers communicating with Russian based computers