Author Archives: nick

There are predictors, Ray Kurzweil comes to mind, who predict that non-biological intelligence will overtake human intelligence in the fairly near future. This vision of the future where computer intelligence is a billion times more powerful than a human brain, … Continue reading →

When you’re a kid, you live, if you’re lucky, as I was, under the most benovolent communism imaginable. All of your needs are provided for. The larger than life leaders love you, and you love them, at least until you’re … Continue reading →

No matter how well organized the Donald Trump campaign is, in the undemocratic state selection processes where the party bosses pick, such as Colorado, Cruz wins. This media spin about how Trump is just too unorganized, or too unsavvy to … Continue reading →

I think it boils down to a split between the globalists and the nationalists, those who think globally, who disdain borders, and those who believe that their country matters. The globalists imagine themselves to be morally superior beings who embrace … Continue reading →

Watching MSNBC, Rachel Maddow played a clip of JFK about Cuba. I can never get enough of watching Kennedy. Can’t help it. I love the guy. Maddow was trying to make some left-wing point with the video, but I don’t … Continue reading →

Donald Trump is not Gandhi. When he is attacked, he fights back. When organizations like moveon.org, supporters of Bernie Sanders, organize an attack intended to deprive Trump and his supporters of their first amendment right to free speech and freedom … Continue reading →

There is no mystery about why people vote for Donald Trump. They vote for him because they believe there is a chance that he might actually stop illegal immigration, bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S., and either keep us … Continue reading →

Donald Trump is not a racist. I hope screaming racist is the plan, because it won’t work. If I were Donald Trump, I would not disavow anyone. I would say I want all the votes, racists, axe murderers, the KKK, … Continue reading →

Most of my racist, homophobic, islamaphobic, xenophobic, sexist, and just generally bigoted fellow Republicans didn’t like the oscars at all. They objected to the continuous rant about race even though, for quite awhile now, black people have won more acting … Continue reading →

I was on the debate team at Iowa State in 1962. We went to a debate tournament in Jackson, Mississippi. I had never been to the South. We stopped at a roadhouse on the way to Jackson. The jukebox was … Continue reading →