Roger F. Gay's Blog (4)

 We're moving toward the real election season. I can tell. The pressure is on to perceive anything and everything as somehow related to a clear choice between just two political parties; no matter how false and idiotic those choices may be and no matter how independent of politics some of those choices should be. It prepares us to be drawn hopelessly into the black hole of traditional American two-party political hysteria from which no reason can…

First off, I have to say that I like robots. They outperform humans at many tasks and are rarely snooty about it. People interested in robots sometimes discuss what's referred to as the “singularity,” a point at which artificial intelligence generally becomes more intelligent than humans. While reading and listening to some of the political discussions going on, it…

"Imagine a state in which you must register your name and address with the authorities, just so they can find you in case you break the law. In an age when bills vaunting protections for privacy abound, and when surveys of consumers rank privacy as a top concern, could that happen here? It is already happening. When we rely on the federal government to solve our problems, we invite it to intrude upon our privacy. We are asking Big Brother to come in and…

A lot has been written about Newt Gingrich's supposed inconsistency; erratic behavior, flip-flops, his support for far-left causes like global warming taxes and the individual health care mandate, the way he wants to turn anything that might sound like a good idea to anybody into a big and expensive federal program and then takes it all back when the unbridled government expansion comes under scrutiny, claiming to be a staunch conservative. Uhm … oh ... no … I didn't really mean that … look…