Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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I haven't yet read Robert Sapolsky's, Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will, though I’m a great admirer of his thinking and have read most of what he's written. His book, A Primate's Memoir, about the years he spent studying
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In revolt against the other, but not against the rules In the space age, the village idiot rules, on TV, for all to see In the last decades, republican failure manifests itself in atrophy to the point of rigor mortis for the modern political party. It is not just an
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“As Socrates was passing through the fair at Athens, and casting his eyes over the shops and customers, 'how many things are here', says he, 'that I do not want!'” – Dr. Johnson, The Adventurer A couple weeks ago, I received a know-how writing request from an
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So now I sleep in ditches And hide away from nosey kids The wings rot and feather under me The wings rot and curl right under me A small alteration of the past turns time into space Small touches can alter more than a mere decade* The FT has two
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Life's a funny, funny thing. In 2000, the California electricity fiasco fell directly on my head — “There may be ethical issues related to ‘the end justifying the means’ but there is a large region of opportunities between what is ethically viable (profitable) and ethically dangerous (illegal).” — with some
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I’ve been meaning to forward this recent piece about Tanzania. In the three plus years I managed to spend on the African continent, US and European press accounts I’ve found overwhelmingly to be not even wrong. So, this piece by the The Economist is an exception, more so
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Sisters and Brothers, In the last few weeks, I've struggled about continuing Life in the 21st Century. It’s come to a head doing taxes, the yearly total of $5,100 while Substack takes 15% ($712) for sending emails and processing credit cards. Which only makes you think,
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If we want to live with the machine, we must understand the machine, we must not worship the machine. We must make a great many changes in the way we live with other people…We will have to realize while we may make the machines our god and sacrifice men
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In this indeed you have hit true prophecy. But now I am willing to let go all history to settle a truce with those ruin-demons of fate: I’ll swallow my pain if the Furies will go from our gate to drown someone else in their murderous misery. A small
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Somethin’s tellin me there’s a whole, nother world Truly sisters and brothers, I've tried to become a better American, ignoring the affairs of state as much as I can. Nonetheless, sometimes, I can't help perusing the news. Upon finishing, just like that conspiratorial murderous
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I was working out this morning, an old guy was leaving and said to the young woman behind the counter, “Happy Earth Day.” She replied, “Is it Earth Day?” That was my reaction, wouldn't have known. I have a good story about Earth Day from long ago when
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If you keep these ideas in mind, You will easily see Nature is free: Liberated from her superb masters, She can do all things by herself Without any need of Gods. – Lucretius, De Rerum Natura Reading 20th century physicists can be a a particularly enjoyable enterprise. Most, for example Einstein,