Car Pets

What if… you combined a pet rock with a cocker spaniel?  You’d get a Car Pet. Ok, maybe you’d just get a cocker spaniel humping a small boulder… Maybe that’s why they’re called cocker spaniels?  Did you think of that?…

Religion as Technology

I was thinking today.  About?  Well, what will be the next big socially spanning world changing disruptive technology?  By my reconning, they occur about every 200 years or so, and I think a new one is due.  I started by…

turned off my tv today

I don’t want to remember 9/11.  Remembering is about avoiding past mistakes or getting revenge.  Honor the victims, absolutely. 9/11 wasn’t a mistake.  We were sucker-punched.  There’s always something we missed, but really there’s not a lot to beat ourselves…

So far so good.

I am an indulgent parent.  No, seriously.  I’m the parent you tsk at.  I’m the dad that says no candy, and when one of my sons cries in response, I say ‘ok’ and get the candy.  I let my kids…

Social Funding: Could it work?

Social Funding, the next installment of my continuing, though usually soon deleted series of blog posts called Whatifz. Background: Recently, I heard a radio interview with  David Graeble, author of DEBT: The First 5000 Years.  Here ->(http://www.amazon.com/Debt-First-000-Years-ebook/dp/B00513DGIO/ref=tmm_kin_title_0?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2) is the Kindle Link, if…