Joel E Lewis

Now Thomas Friedman joins the “our government is broken and our our political parties represent the crazies” bandwagon. That is why I want my own Tea Party. I want a Tea Party of the radical center. Say what? I write often about innovation in energy and education. But I’ve come to realize that none of [...]

The anti-fun pro political correctness and using political power for enjoyment crowd strikes again: [Gainesville] is getting ready to put the kibosh on ladies’ night specials and will be notifying the 115 bars and restaurants in the city limits in the next few days that they will no longer be able to give discounts based [...]

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A historical parallel to the current level of division and outrage over health care: “To find a prototype for the overheated reaction to the health care bill, you have to look a year before Medicare, to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Both laws passed by similar majorities in Congress; the Civil Rights Act received [...]

The Economist has a special report on how Data and the tools and technologies we use to understand are changing our lives at an accelerating pace.  For example: Google applies this principle of recursively learning from the data to many of its services, including the humble spell-check, for which it used a pioneering method that [...]

Some ideas make you wonder what the creator was smoking when they came up with it.  With this one, we pretty much know: On Wednesday, the California secretary of state certified a November vote on a ballot measure that would legalize, tax and regulate marijuana, a plan that advocates say could raise $1.4 billion and [...]

They say the only things you can count on in life are death and taxes.  When it comes to Social Security, the future isn’t much different.  Social Security has taken the first steps on the road to its ruin: This year, the system will pay out more in benefits than it receives in payroll taxes, [...]

Charlie Crist, the sitting Governor of Florida is in the senate primary race of his life against up-and-comer Marco Rubio.  538 has some excellent analysis on his options from here on it.  They suggest his best chance to win is to run for the Senate as an independant candidate, disavowing party polarization and the crazy [...]

The NYTimes has an article about the canceling of a old school Washington social scene column, with some interesting insight into how the way our leaders interact has changed and polarized over the last 50 years: …The Washington that Ms. Quinn covers, one governed by convivial elites who battle by day and clink glasses at [...]