We seem to have collectively decided that at least 15% of our working-age population is no longer necessary to keep our country’s businesses running, and every year we have a larger number of surplus people as we shift more jobs overseas or automate them out of existence. We basically have two choices: we can either [...]

A video I didn’t make that shows just about every TV news cliche I avoid in my own work.

If you live in or near the Fair Lanes Acres mobile home community in Bradenton, Florida, or you like to attend local classic car shows, you’ve probably spotted Sherwood Moore tooling around in his 1923 Model T Ford. He likes to drive it, not just show it off, and loves to give people rides.
Children, [...]

The overwhelming majority of governments over the centuries and millenia have been dictatorships.

In a fantasy libertarian paradise, each citizen works hard out of enlightened self-interest. No one uses force on anyone else, since my rights stop where your nose begins. If you accumulate a whole bunch of property, bully for you! If I fail in business or some other endeavor and suddenly have no money for food, [...]

One of my wife’s friends is a doctor’s wife — who is now on an austerity budget because, she says, her husband’s pediatric practice now sees an average of seven patients per day, down from an average of thirty patients per day a year ago. He’s laying off two more of his office staff people [...]

…says a Washington Post article. In the article, an auto industry analyst is quoted, who says, “There are better-value alternatives to the ForTwo, which starts at $11,900.” No sheet, shylock. The ForTwo would be a nice little contraption for buzzing to the grocery store or to the beach or for other local trips, but there [...]

BRADENTON, FLORIDA: The Bradenton Village of the Arts — villageofthearts.com — opened its long-awaited community welcome center on January 8, 2010. “The Village now has a meeting place… it has a heart, geographically,” said Kevin Webb, president of the Artists Guild of Manatee.

The Welcome Center has information about all Village galleries and other businesses, including [...]

I find it amazing that so many people who talked a good “free market” game were so quick to use my tax money to save their wealthy friends’ millions when said friends made poor bets — and lost. I know we’re all supposed to blame Obama for everything bad that’s happened in this country since [...]

Carolina Launch Pad names 2010 class of entrepreneurs
CHAPEL HILL, NC, January 8, 2010—New participants in Carolina Launch Pad will move into office space within the next few weeks as the pre-commercial incubator located at RENCI begins its second year.
Carolina Launch Pad, funded by RENCI through the UNC Office of the Provost, targets faculty, staff and [...]