Rao’s Solution Available for Purchase

Rao’s Solution is a novel written by David Dixon Lentz. A description can be found below our newest video on wages, inflation and the urgent need to stop the encroachment of oligarchy and plutocracy into our democracy:  Here’s our newest video (book description is below that):             Rao’s approach applies Read More …

IMPEACH CLARENCE THOMAS?

[Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It comes in 3 parts. 1.The first is the first half of the radio broadcast with tune links. 2. The Editorial/Article:  Impeach Clarence Thomas?  3. The second half of the radio broadcast with tune links. The purpose of this blog is to discuss, enlighten and Read More …

MUSK $50 BILLION BONUS & PLUTOCRACY

[Analysis and Opinion.] Elon Musk has demanded that Tesla pay him a bonus of $50 billion. Here’s a link to a story about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/dereksaul/2024/06/05/tesla-shareholders-vote-on-elon-musks-50-billion-pay-package-next-week-heres-whats-at-stake/ We’ve previously expressed our view that one of the biggest dangers facing the United States is the risk of oligopoly.   See https://reasonandbalance.com/worlds-biggest-problems-ai-and-more/.   It would have been more correct to say Read More …

TRUMP’s CONVICTION: CAMPAIGN EFFECTS

[Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes.  The purpose of this blog is to enlighten and educate the reader about music and other current and important issues.  It opens with the transcript of the first half of the radio program (complete with music links)), then there’s a break for the editorial/article Read More …

TRUMP: HERE COMES THE JUDGE

[Note:  The purpose of this blog is to enlighten and educate the reader about music and other current and important issues.  Typically, in Tick’s Notes and Tunes the article ( in this  case, Trump: Here Comes the Judge) appears as an editorial in the middle of the transcript of the radio broadcast. Please see the Read More …

World’s Biggest Problems: AI Plus Some Tunes

[MUSIC, ENTERTAINMENT and OPINION.] [Note:  The purpose of this blog is to enlighten and educate the reader about music and other current and important issues. The article about the “World’s Biggest Problems” is in the form of an editorial in the middle or break portion of the fictional radio broadcast below.  Please see the very Read More …

SOCIALISM:  BOGEYMAN OR SAVIOR?

SOCIALISM:  SOCIETY’S BOGEYMAN OR SAVIOR? Here’s our video about socialism which includes the inevitable discussion of communism and Marxism.  We also talk about and compare the economic performances of capitalistic, communistic,  and socialistic systems.  We also discuss democratic socialism and social democratic political parties. We uploaded this video to Youtube on March 7, 2021, but Read More …

McConnell & Graham AINOs?

[What follows is a transcript of a short wave radio broadcast from where and when we do not know. The EDITORIAL concerning the more serious and substantive portion of the broadcast is halfway down.] [Note:  The purpose of this blog is to enlighten, educate and  perhaps entertain the reader about music and other current and Read More …

NO COOPERATION, NO DEMOCRACY, NO PEACE

    [ANALYSIS, OPINION, NOTES & TUNES]   [Welcome to another edition of TNnT which is short for “Tick’s Notes & Tunes”, where we start with “Notes” of interest on various, usually important, topics which are followed by “Tunes” which is the transcript of a fictional short wave radio transmission from where and when we Read More …