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Gene Roddenberry's "Star Trek" television series foresaw much of today's technology. Before you held your cellphone, underwent non-invasive surgery, or used a GPS in your car, technologies like these were used on the series. But can the franchise have meaning during the Great Recession? One can only hope. I wrote in May about what newspapers can learn from "Star Trek" because insight often wades in the waters of creative drama. Well, I couldn't resist talking about the franchise again because CBS and Mad Science Group recently announced that in 2010 they will present "Star Trek Live" shows ...
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The massive government bailout of the financial sector that is currently being debated in Congress is causing consternation among our best and brightest economists, as well as our lawmakers. Indeed, the only thing that everyone seems to agree upon is that it's regrettable we find ourselves in such a mess. Who is to blame, and how we go about fixing it, is a whole other matter. One thing that I believe all Americans should demand is that both John McCain and Barack Obama return to Washington to vote on the forthcoming legislation. Since the economy is the single most pressing issue in this ...
It's the most ominous headline ever seen on a plain vanilla Associated Press news article: "Everything Seemingly Is Spinning Out Of Control."A terrifying litany of economic, social, political and environmental collapse, the AP story ties together such horrors as the flooding of the entire U.S. Midwest, the awful failure of the "War On Terror" in Afghanistan and Iraq, the skyrocketing gasoline prices that are literally crippling America in a matter of weeks, the melting of the Earth's polar ice caps, the dramatic sudden failure of our nation's infrastructure, the hundreds of thousands of dead ...
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