Evan Bayh's withdrawal is just the most publicized of many resignations and withdrawals of senators and congressmen no longer willing to fight the silly fight that represents our current form of politics.

What if the problem with health insurance wasn't about the government?

After watching months of mindless blathering about government bad vs government good and how it is saving or ruining our lives yada yada, it is refreshing to see at least one thoughtful and creative response to the health insurance crisis.

Wars and environmental challenges, minor issues such as these are the result of ignoring worldwide problems for long periods of time. It takes a lot of determination to ignore such large problems, because most solutions really want to be applied, and have to be held back with significant force.

This blog explores the idea that our differences might be much simpler to conceptualize than we are giving them credit for.

Is There A Magical Force Beyond Just Momentum ?

What is this force that causes people to go against their own impulses to fix things, and to ignore solutions that have been readily available for decades? Momentum often gets the blame, and I won't argue with that, but I'll propose that this force is much more magical than the mere momentum of human behaviors - there are underlying contracts.

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America was founded on the separation of church and state, perhaps it should have been "religion" and state instead, and then we could avoid things like this meltdown that we are currently suffering from.

In my view, the cause of the meltdown was a simple confusion between the religion of free markets and the underlying fundamentals of free markets.

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