Politics determines who has the power, not who has the truth.

The party of ideas has become the party of Beavis and Butthead.

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

A snarky but accurate description of monetary policy over the past five years is that the Federal Reserve successfully replaced the technology bubble with a housing bubble

Are you, or is someone you know, a gadget freak? If so, you doubtless know that Wednesday was iPhone 5 day, the day Apple unveiled its latest way for people to avoid actually speaking to or even looking at whoever they're with.

The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in 'Metcalfe's law'–which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants–becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.