But of course they do! Everybody knows that there are 3rd Party candidates running for President. But where can you learn about them? How do you know their names, their platforms and who they are? You cannot! That is, unless you access what has been termed "the alternative media", also...

It is a social norm that people acquire material things to clothe themselves, help them furnish a home, a vehicle for transportation and to engage in modern life, such as the use of a computer, Internet, phone, TV, radio as well as some things for play, enjoyment, sport and entertainment.

I should really title this "getting clear of fear about voting 3rd party..." because that's really all it is. It is my premise that we'll only find quality candidates in independent parties. We'll be hard-pressed to find them in the two, ol' boy clubs called the Republican and Democrat parties...

Once a year we celebrate the subject which is said "makes the world go round," yet we spend all of one full day on what is the primary preoccupation of most all theater, movies, TV shows, novels and almost all fiction. So many people's lives these days in the 21st...

I'll start radical and come closer to the moderate middle, I think.

The idea of a bank taking away someone's house, I suggest, is an utterly radical, inhumane and bad idea. Who came up with it, Mr. Potter?

It immediately puts money before health, education, children's and family well-being. It...

There is so much turmoil in our nation and in the world today, I see that people are overwhelmed and significantly stressed in trying to understand and deal with the differing scales of difficulty and stress, and prioritize them in a way that allows for some kind of reasonably balanced...

I had the unique opportunity to meet Dr. Muhammad Yunus last week in NYC after the screening of a film called Bonsai People directed by Holly Mosher, the first film about the work of Dr. Yunus, the Grameen Bank and the wonderful world of micro-credit. The film brings one into...

As business is currently done, there is a high probability of a few corporations aggregating most of the business to be done through rather cutthroat means, buying political influence and then having enough money to either spend exorbitant amounts of media advertising or just buying the media companies themselves --...

I know! Government is here to waste our money by waging wars called protecting our national security and then also have enough left, sort of like left-overs on a plate, to actually serve the People themselves. A heaping helping for the military, and a teeny one for everyone else....

The number of social, political and economic problems we're facing today are nothing short of daunting. With the momentum of privatization of otherwise public works, and even subordinating elected officials to the whim of corporate profiteers as in Benton Harbor, MI, gives some indication of how powerful the corporatization of...

I'd rather stop, think and contemplate a beautiful sunrise really, a powerful, yellow ball rising above the horizon by the shore. Or a sunset with a bloom of colors across the sky. But due to evolution's incredibly slow movement in the minds, hearts and souls of some of our fellow...

For what may be the cutest, passion-born-of-youth presentation to a Silicon Valley venture capital company on record, the teenage Rachel Sequoia, microphone in hand and with nothing short of bare feet below, spoke to an audience of serious-looking members of a VC group as she pitched them for $500,000 in...

I know it may sound funny, but by the appearance of the systemically unethical activities taking place routinely in the corporate sphere, of aggregating utterly ridiculous sums of money into the hands of a very few, at the expense of the vast majority of not just the American, but the...

I am both happy for but a bit distressed about St. Valentine's Day. On the bright side, any reason at all for people to express more love for each other, to each other and even at each other, makes a better world for all. Whether those loves are romantic or...

Well, hats off to Arianna Huffington! Sometimes the world gets lucky and along comes someone who is willing to put her mouth and money where her heart is, and that is what we find in Arianna Huffington. High notes are being hit and beautiful music is reigning in the land.

Yes indeed, the plot thickens. Mr. Potter is getting meaner, Mr. Payne more pompous and the rest of us increasingly at the effect of the irrational, thoughtless elite. The only thing is, this is not a movie or a TV show though it is high drama on the level of...

The recent blizzard in NYC and the entire Eastern Seaboard, along with dazzling snow appearances in parts of the country like Arizona that we've hardly ever seen, can be a reminder of what appears to be within our sphere of influence for...

Looking at how we think, see or perceive as in a reflective exercise is just not something we humans really like to do. We'd rather actively assert that we know what we know without knowing the whys and wherefores and let it go at that.

But the words we use...

Recently, a group of about 200 people gathered in the hallowed halls of one of the Big Apple's favorite gathering places, fashion-designer/philanthropist Donna Karan's Urban Zen, in the West Village, downtown NYC. The occasion was that Arianna Huffington was to moderate a discussion between the highly-celebrated Deepak Chopra, and publisher...