Author: philinmaine

Back in high school, the best essay I ever wrote was based on a favorite book of mine, Brave New World. A world where people willingly submitted to a controlling government and society as long as their personal needs were met....

Here’s the email I got:  1. Go to www.google.com  2. Type in “french military victories”, without the quotes  3. Instead of hitting “Search” hit “I’m feeling Lucky”...

I live and work in a non-fiction world, I do politics on the side so when I read, it’s fiction most of the time. So I am reading along in this book which has precious little to do with politics. It’s about a...

As some of you know (I hope) I do an ongoing series at WERU (weru.org) on the environment and here’s another in the series…let me know what topics you’d like to see or whether this type of diary should be moved...

If you aren’t signed up to participate in Zogby’s online polls, you might want to try it. It’s worth it if for nothing else than to see how questions are worded and the conclusions reached by prior polls. When...