Monthly Archives: June 2011

“Take me out to the ball game.  take me out with the crowd.  Buy me some peanuts and crackerjacks, I don’t care …  for it’s one, two, three [..]

For reasons that are obscure to me, I invested some of the last 18 months learning ancient Greek.  That exercise had no practical value (not a criterion for [..]

Lipitor (atorvastatin) is a well-known drug for lowering blood cholesterol.  It happens to be the biggest selling (legal) drug of all times.  The Lipitor patent expires on November [..]

I love physics.  Why?  No one says it better than the stimulating Paul Davies. Physics is the most pretentious of the sciences, for it purports to address all [..]

Last week another politician signed up to take “full responsibility” for his actions.  This time it was Anthony Weiner, the Democratic Representative from New York whose puerile obsession [..]

My book, The Persuasive Wizard: How Technical Experts Sell Their Ideas to Non-technical Decision Makers, is scheduled for publication in late August.  This book was written specifically for [..]

I spent much of my career directing think-tank organizations that focused on the needs of the US Intelligence community.  My organization investigated the forefront of every new technology [..]