Business
- Isn’t technology supposed to make things easier?
- Cape Cod will be very different in 50 years
- Be good to your employees and your employees will be good to you
- Riding the radio waves
- My best selling books
- Everything changes; no exceptions — and sometimes the change is revolutionary
- Losing money in the fishing business
Conflict/Military
- If you need machine guns for your Army, you have to train machine gunners!
- It’s a new kind of war! And we should start now to get ready to fight it
- We need to stop warring
- My unit trains for riot control
- “What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?”
- Throwing a live grenade
- Presidential lies cost American lives. Vietnam is one example
Economics
Education
- There are generous people in the world!
- Intimidation and humiliation as pedagogical tools
- How efficient is your school system?
Entrepreneurship
Family Stories
- She taught us how to love children
- How to legally buy votes
- RIP: John Patrick Hayes
- Don’t let perfect be the enemy of good
- Uncle John, The cantankerous, absent-minded professor
- When my mother couldn’t visit the world, she let the world come to her
- Thanksgiving hasn’t been the same since my brother died
- The Lewis Family Trust and the Aunt Virginia death watch
- 75, 47, 46, 31, 29, 19, 8 and 3
- I get the same present every Father’s Day
Global Warming
- Why are we paying rich people to pollute our air?
- Nuclear Power Can Save the World
- Telecommuting will save time, money and CO2
- Will fishermen stop the huge wind farm off Nantucket?
- The world really could go nuclear, but it won’t be cheap
- The best way to stop global warming is nuclear power
- Things we can do personally and locally to deal with global warming
Health Care
- Why are we ignoring something that could make our schools much safer?
- A cautionary tale
- How to get better health care for less money
- There is a way to provide health care for everyone that’s fair and proven successful
Life Lessons
- There are generous people in the world!
- Aging means letting go and grieving the loss
- Live and let live
- The two most important things in life
- You’re doing the best you can
- Exercise, for better or worse?
- How to improve your odds in the lottery of life
- Suffering
Local Government Funding
- There’s a better way to fund our schools!
- Why your real estate taxes may be higher than they should be
- There’s a better way to pay for education
- How many Fire Departments does a town need?
- A proposal for funding the maintenance and improvement of the infrastructure of the town of Sandwich, MA
Politics and Economics
- How “Bidenomics” can repair and redirect the economy
- Mayflower Compact sets bar for democracy
- Public companies should be reinvesting in the company and sharing profits with employees
- Capitalism has its limits
- Should we be using tax dollars to help private plane owners?
- President Deval Patrick?
- You’re living in a “Laboratory for Democracy.”
- There oughtta (NOT) be a law!
- They’re coming for your Medicare!
- We can’t have both lower taxes and higher expenditures without borrowing from our grand kids
Psychology
- Isn’t technology supposed to make things easier?
- Falling off the porch and other adventures of the subconscious
- How the media helped Donald Trump get elected
Social Issues
- The lawyers have made liars of all of us
- We must decide how we decide!
- Sex on camera for cash is legal. Sex in private for cash is not
- Betting against the odds with odd betting
- Should we be using tax dollars to help private plane owners?
- We can help people earn more money
- Telecommuting will save time, money and CO2
- We need to train ourselves to think ahead
- Why every young American should serve their country
- Before you look for racism, look for tribalism
Taxation
Voting and Elections
- Under “Ranked Choice Voting” Trump might have won the popular vote in 2016
- Picking the winner could win you money
- Changes to the Electoral College could make all votes count
- Voting by mail is easier, cheaper, more secure – and people like it
- There is a better way to vote
- We can keep the electoral college and still get results closer to the popular vote
Zoning/Housing
- Some people want to get rid of their waste. Others want to keep it
- A radical solution to America’s low housing stock
- Could zoning be what’s holding the economy back?
- NIMBY makes housing unaffordable
- More senior housing could help younger families, too
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