Australia’s Brush Fires
Kerby Anderson Most all media reports claim that the terrible brush fires in Australia have been made worse by climate change. That may be true in the...
Killing Freelance Work
Penna Dexter A California law went into effect January 1 that hurts the very people it was supposed to “protect.” Assembly Bill 5 severely limits ind...
Water’s Edge
Kerby Anderson Occasionally I use the phrase, “Politics stops at the water’s edge” when talking on radio. I really didn’t know the full history of the...
Glacier Park
Kerby Anderson One of the framed pictures in my office is a photograph I took at Glacier National Park when I was a teenager. I have always wanted to...
Twitter and Iran
Kerby Anderson Two weeks ago, it seemed like there might be a major confrontation between the US and Iran. Garrett Graff, writing in Wired, suggested...
Martin Luther King
Kerby Anderson On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, let me suggest that you take some time to read his letter from a Birmingham Jail. If you are young, I th...
Resurrecting The ERA
Penna Dexter Some bad ideas just keep coming back. And when they do, they’re often more dangerous than ever. One such proposal was the Equal Rights A...
Best Decade?
Kerby Anderson If you want to get a surprised reaction from people, tell them that we just had the best decade ever. I am fascinated by the reaction w...
Groupthink
Kerby Anderson In our world today, there is a great danger of groupthink. That is a name given to the way in which a group begins to think and reinfo...