Can and/or Should Trump Be Impeached Again?

As Lord Acton once famously said:  “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” [Despite the fact that the following videos are very substantive and make very rational and valid points on extremely relevant subjects, again they got no views on Youtube. (The author is a lawyer, has taught international business on a University 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …