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Where is the Smart State? on Aug 25 2008

A reader asks why smart people have not set up an advanced society and created their utopia? It should take them only a decade to create the most prosperous and smart nation on the planet .. and leave us in their dust. How can it be that the smartest ...

Companion Death on Apr 23 2007

by Dr. Colin | ˜ No Comments »

To Live is to Suffer Life is inevitably pain, sickness, death and decay. Everything is touched by the shadow of dissatisfaction, imperfection, disillusion. No one escapes. Sound familiar? Not just my pathetic publisher on a good day. Not just any of us on our 50th birthday. Simply the first Noble ...

God Moves Goal Posts on Jan 22 2005

by bruce | ˜ No Comments »

Faltering faith goads God - bountifulness blamed God (via a spokesbeing, of course) presaged increased stringency upon a plenteous Earth in the approaching era. It is 'time' (as mortally perceived) to raise the bar on bounteousness" the supernatural being intoned. Rising ...

Passing Parade on Jan 28 2004

by Editor | ˜ No Comments »

After repeated visits, the Internet assumes substance and duration – a Cyberworld as real as any experience. The Internet’s immediacy finds us networked in real time, death presented live while, like members of some electronic herd, we gaze curiously at the unfortunate. Email is a river of ...