It'll take some time to finish listening through last week's order from CD Universe: Bill Bruford / Ralph Towner If Summer Had Its Ghosts Chase Chase / Ennea / Pure Music Larry Coryell Lady Coryell Jerry Goodman and Jan Hammer Like Children Phil Ochs All the News that's Fit to Sing By the...

The Obama administration's "Cash for Clunkers" program has been dominating the news lately. This program has some serious problems. One is that it's easily scammed. Sell your old car, buy a Prius, get $4500, sell the Prius on CraigsList for $1000.00 off list, buy an Escalade for, effectively, $3500.00 off. Secondly, through some weirdness in...

An addendum to my Cash for Clunkers Post... There are a lot of recent articles about the "success" of the Cash for Clunkers program, as indicated by the number of applicants and the money being dispersed. But the goal of the program was not to disperse money, but rather to reduce pollution. (Remember? Saving the Earth?) We've seen absolutely...

[added a couple more articles, needed to reformat...] With socialized medicine in the news these days, I'd like to draw your attention to these articles which present some important reasons why it's a bad thing. The authors all accomplished individuals with significant experience in and around the fields of medicine and health care. ...

With iTunes 9, Apple introduces a feature called iTunes LP. It sure seems like the folks at Apple's iTunes group have read my article A New Business Model for the Music Industry, and taken it to heart. Good!

An article in the New York Times, September 27, 2009, Solar Power, Without All Those Panels by Anne Eisenberg, describes solar panels that are remarkably similar to what I proposed in this blog 20 months in my post Solar Valley, The Unsolved Solar Panel Problem, Doubling the Efficiency. Excellent.