Our landline connection to the local telephone company has finally been severed! We are "free at last, free at last!" Well, not qu...

A relative by marriage spent a number of years in a Kibbutz (communal living) in Israel. She recently described how this seemingly idealist...

I've just completed my second contribution to Google's " Knol " - their run at Wikipedia 's dominance in the free know...

In a Comment to our Accretion of Power Topic, Howard wrote, in part: In the long run, however, natural resources are what give power to a s...

It seems to be a general principle of human interaction that power draws power to itself. One sees this on both small and large scales, from...

Joel said, "Too often quoting authority leads to questioning credentials (as we have seen) and obscuring the real issues. It's...

There have always been "guardians at the gates" preventing free access to the "press" - until now! Prior to the inventi...