Art Harris

Maybe it’s just the fact that this is an election year but it seems to me that we’re losing the capacity to engage in reasonable discussions. It isn’t just online… Read More »Communications 101 (Fall 2012)

When I decided to ride the bus instead of drive to work, I knew there would be trade-offs. I had to leave earlier, couldn’t carry as much stuff with me,… Read More »Bus Stop Blues

Introspection: observation or examination of one’s own mental and emotional state, mental processes, etc.; the act of looking within oneself. It occurred to me today that what is lacking in our national discussion of the issues is a sense of introspection. It’s like my mother always told me,… Read More »Introspection Breeds Harmony

If you’ve ever seen the movie “Minority Report”, you probably remember how they used “scientific” methods to detect that someone was going to commit a crime and proceed to arrest… Read More »The Other C Word

I’ve been asked why I continue to blog about current events instead of finding a niche. Stuff like music, movies, dressing dogs in human clothes, or NASCAR. They ask how… Read More »Bang Your Head

I saw a quote from a person saying that a candidate was the “most honest” person he knew. When I first read this, I shrugged it off as being the… Read More »Honesty

I’ve been bombarded lately by a barrage of Facebook posts with titles like “Age Test” and “Do you Remember” links that show a picture of some gadget or toy from… Read More »Old or Seasoned?

“Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power” (Benjamin Franklin) “Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm… Read More »Turn of the Screw

The campaign season is in full swing and, as usual, money is at the heart of the ability to reach voters with a message. A recent article in The Atlantic highlights the… Read More »Campaigns and Money

As with most man-made disasters, the series of financial ones in recent years were caused by a combination of greed and hubris. It would be easy to pin this all… Read More »How Much Money is Enough?