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 …

LIBERTY DIES:  POLITICIANS FIDDLE

[ANALYSIS AND OPINION] For the last eight months, we, (whom we shall sometimes also refer to simply as “SS”, which is a sister website of reasonandbalance.com),  have dealt with two global giants that control, by far, the lion’s share of all internet browsing.  Not only that but because they allow companies to advertise on their Read More …

The Evils of Cashless Business

Is a cashless society good?    It may be faster to do everything by plastic and  electronically.  But there’a a huge risk in going down the cashless path.   Erosion of liberty….A huge additional risk of a cashless society is that it further subjects everyone to the risk of total loss if our financial system is subject to a major and pervasive internet/computer hack….Who is benefiting from this policy?  The betting here is that its a few monied oligarchs. Read More …

Current Issues and Rao’s Solution: A Defense

Recently I received some insightful comments on my novel, Rao’s Solution.   I always appreciate well-intended objective comments on my work. I thought I would  share parts of my response because it really goes to the whole purpose of the book. [As you will see I didn’t pay close attention to the rules of punctuation.] *** Read More …