IMPORTANT BUT IGNORED

This page is currently under construction. It’s hard to be truly objective about one’s own content.  However, more times than we would care to admit we have been disappointed in the viewership of some the videos and blog posts we’ve published.  What really concerns us is that many times this disappointment has come with respect Read More …

Political Choices: Artificial Intelligence

We have not yet written an article on this vitally important subject.  Below are two videos we did and below that are the “slides” that provide the actual content of the second video.       Below is what the slides say: GOING FORWARD COULD THE FOLLOWING BE  MAN’S ONLY “HAPPY” CHOICE? ——————————————   Artificial Read More …

Can AI Destroy Democracy? Black Keys OMC funk & rock

[Preliminary Note:  For some reason when we posted this blog, we stopped getting any visitors.  Wonder why?  Not only did we stop getting visitors to this page, but we also stopped getting views on our Youtube videos having anything to do with oligarchs.  Is reasonandbalance.com being censored? As such, we changed the title to what Read More …

Musk v Democracy: Marvin Gaye Duran Duran +

  [Editor’s Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played.  The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: Read More …

Bob Seger Psychobilly & Tunes- Musk & Trump

  [Editor’s Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played.  The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: Read More …

Time to Rock and to Vote

  [Editor’s Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played.  The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: Read More …

Tick’s Notes & Tunes: Siouxsie Dolly Bo and Ry

[Editor’s Note:  This is the latest edition of Tick’s Notes and Tunes. It is a transcript of a fictional radio broadcast with direct links to the tunes being played.  The transcript is in 3 parts. (1.)The first is the first half of a transcript of the radio broadcast with tune links; (2.) The Editorial: (which 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 …

Musings of a Fifty-Year Graduate

[ANALYSIS and OPINION.]   As I write this, it is the 50th Anniversary of my high school graduation.  I won’t get into how Watergate compares to January 6th and/or how the Vietnam War compares to Ukraine etc.  Suffice it to say these are extremely precarious, and even dangerous, times both in terms of international relations Read More …