http://www.occams-razor.info Insightful essays on subjects trivial and profound Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:06:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you want to know why Barack Obama is surging in the polls, it would be tempting to say that it is due to our current economic problems. That is it, of course, but it imparts little in the way of understanding. Obama is gaining in the polls, not so ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/10/screwed_and_angry.html It seems like no matter how much we voters want lively debates from our presidential and vice presidential candidates, they won’t give them to us. Thursday’s vice presidential debate could have been interesting and informative. Instead, many of us watching it felt inclined to nod off instead. If you watch clips ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/10/the_vice_presidential_debate.html I had no choice but to give up reading InfoWorld when it ended its print publication. It still has a presence online. Although I still think it is far less useful as a pure web publication, I find myself straying over to the website from time to time. I also ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/10/infoworld_peers_ten_years_out_into_our_technology_future.html Well, who would have thought it possible? Liberals and conservatives are finally united! Not on everything, you understand, but definitely on the plan to bail out Wall Street. By a vote of 228 to 205, the bill was ingloriously defeated today in the U.S. House of Representatives. We agreed: we ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/the_wall_street_villain_in_your_mirror.html My thanks to my friend Renee, who invited a whole bunch of us over to her house last night to watch the first presidential debate between Senators McCain and Obama. It is more fun to watch debates in the presence of other likeminded people. If you are a political junkie ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/the_first_debate.html Washington Post movie reviewer Ann Hornaday says the recently released movie Ghost Town falls into the genre of “the Really Good Movie”. Because it has been a while since I had seen a really good movie my wife and I made a point of going to see it. I am not ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/review_ghost_town.html These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. (Italics mine) Speaking of Star Trek, actor George Takei (age 71), a member of the original Star Trek ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/where_no_man_has_gone_before.html On February 21, 2003, President Bush gave a speech in Kennesaw, Georgia. There he first talked about America becoming an “ownership society”. In those heady days of neo-conservatism, an ownership society meant power was going to trickle down to the masses. We would be in charge (own) our health care ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/the_ownership_society_has_arrived.html I haven’t written about metaphysics for quite a while, mainly because I did not have much to say. Principally, I was losing interest in the subject but also I have been busy engaging in life, which I suspect is its natural purpose. Yet, occasionally something comes up in the press ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/consciousness_as_a_two-way_mirror.html It was two years ago this September 9th that we adopted a homeless and rather ordinary looking black and brown three year old tabby. After two years of living with us, Arthur is settling in well. For a cat, he is living the good life. He has a home of ... http://www.occams-razor.info/2008/09/belated_cat_blogging.html