In the spirit of Obama the Marxist winning and more and more democrats “coming out” as socialists now, I present this wonderful article entitled “Why Socialism Failed” by Mark J. Perry (blog), Ph.D. Professor of Finance and Business Economics, about why Socialism has failed in so many countries already. I think the practical reality of historical evidence is crucial in our day when it’s so easy to sell Socialism as a wonderful cure-all – in theory. (I also updated my Barack Obama and Global Warming articles if you’re interested.)
November 4, 2009
September 3, 2009
September 1, 2009
August 24, 2009
July 7, 2009
No More Green Guilt
This article discusses how we go along with failed environmentalist scheme after failed environmentalist scheme partly because of prosperity guilt. It’s quite interesting.
June 5, 2009
Traffic Waves
After receiving a speeding ticket and taking an on-line driver’s safety course, I found a link in that course that took me to trafficwaves.org. Absolutely amazing! It describes how a single driver can completely destroy a huge traffic jam by putting some space in front of him before entering the jam. It talks about the wave patterns in traffic and many other things. The author of the site has single-handedly broken up many traffic jams already with these simple techniques. It’s also interesting that virtues such as patience and generosity are through this experiment shown to increase efficiency in traffic flow. It also shows how the vices of impatience and greed can cause a backward travelling wave of jammed cars behind him that can last for hours and it decreases the efficiency of the highway – so the most aggressive person in the jam is causing and increasing the jam and is slowing himself down without knowing it. Check out the site – it’s quite interesting!
May 11, 2009
A skeptics guide to “An Inconvenient Truth”
Here’s a rebuttal paper to Al Gore’s movie “An Inconvient Truth” (AIT). Read the rebuttal, forward the link to people, pass it on. I have heard that Mr. Gore is planning on doing a sequel to his first Oscar-winning movie, so I figured now is a good time to get some information out. See also this other article I wrote on Global Warming that also has links to two counter-documentaries against AIT, pointing out its flaws as well.
Below is a summary from the above linked paper of some of the problems in Mr. Gore’s movie/book. The paper itself goes into great detail on these topics and others:
July 14, 2008
February 26, 2008
Lights – LED, Fluorescent, Incandescent?
So, incandescent lights will be outlawed in the U.S. by 2014 and are energy inefficient. “They may warm the planet.” Fine, whatever.
Fluorescent lights contain mercury. If a fluorescent light breaks, there are specific cleanup instructions that involve leaving the room for 15 minutes with the windows open and then you put contaminated materials in a sealed glass jar. If I have an infant, it is recommended that I consider cutting out the carpet in the breakage area and removing it. Ok.
LED lights are getting better and supposedly they are finding ways that will be ready for mass production in three years or so. Ok. (more…)

