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A New Consciousness

By Phil Mayes Posted on February 9, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

An idea cannot be named before it has been thought. A social movement cannot be identified until it has started to arise. There is a new consciousness in the world that as yet has no name. It says we are …

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Authoritarianism

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 4, 2014 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I’ve just finished reading “The Authoritarians” by Robert Altemeyer of the University of Manitoba. He has spent a lifetime researching authoritarian personalities, of which he finds two types. I want to emphasize that his work is evidence-driven, based on a number …

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Paul Ryan is Tarnishing Quickly

By Phil Mayes Posted on August 17, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

Paul Ryan’s squeaky-clean image as a fiscal conservative is not holding up very well: He voted for the bills that created the massive deficits. The 2001 Bush Tax Cuts The 2003 Bush Tax Cuts  Medicare Part D (the prescription benefit) …

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Guess what 30% of Republicans Believe?

By Phil Mayes Posted on July 29, 2012 Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized No Comments

…that Obama is a Muslim. Sigh. The Pew Forum.

The Cost of Patent Trolls

By Phil Mayes Posted on June 27, 2012 Posted in Economics, Intellectual Property, Uncategorized No Comments

A paper by two Boston University researchers puts the annual cost of patent trolls at $29Bn.

Political Protest Now Banned in America

By Phil Mayes Posted on May 14, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized 1 Comment

OK, there is no Federal legislation banning it, but the de facto situation is pretty close. Salon reports that for the G20 summit, Chicago police will be deploying a sound cannon, causing anyone within 100m of the device’s directed sound …

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Variability in Hospital Pricing

By Phil Mayes Posted on May 1, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

I’m a week late with this, but the NYTimes ran a breath-taking article on variability in hospital pricing, showing that the cost of operations varied tremendously, e.g. an appendectomy ranged from $1,500 to $182,955.

Us and Them

By Phil Mayes Posted on April 3, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

After the Supreme Court ruled by a 5-to-4 vote that officials may strip-search people arrested for any offense, however minor, before admitting them to jails even if the officials have no reason to suspect the presence of contraband (NYTimes), Slate …

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Newsflash: There are Only 7 Terrorists in the Entire World

By Phil Mayes Posted on March 16, 2012 Posted in Politics, Society, Uncategorized No Comments

“We can reduce the size of the haystack when we are looking for that one-in-a-billion terrorist,” said TSA Administrator John Pistole.

The Internet Will Enable World Peace

By Phil Mayes Posted on January 5, 2012 Posted in Uncategorized 3 Comments

In today’s world, knowledge of others is greatly expanding because of video, social media and the Internet. When people around the world connect, see each other and communicate, they can identify with and recognize the humanity in strangers everywhere. This …

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