You Are Not Your Brain
— Scroll down to watch the video for “The Brain.” — We’ve grown accustomed to headlines breathlessly intoning the latest claptrap from neuroscience: “Brain …
Let’s Build a Future, While Supplies Last
A going-out-of-business sale for all time. The degradation of the natural world began at a time we were more beholden to nature than it …
Disruptors. Are we over them yet?
We live in an age of disruption. Both in technology & politics. The exploitation and corruption rival the Gilded Age. Tech giants and startups …
Small Penis – a Feminist Take
Feminism – for want of a better term – has been a liberating force for women and for men. What started with challenging received …
The Invisible Hand is Broken
[Scroll down to view video] Adam Smith’s law of competition is supposed to create an optimal economy of consumers and producers. When a better …
Millennium Glitch
[Scroll down to view video] In 1999, the year 2000 was going to be the end of the world. Because of the Y2K bug, …
Conspiracy Theories are the False Flags
[Scroll down to view video] In 1969, as an 11-year old Beatles fan, I learned that Paul was dead. The devastating evidence in the …
Notes Toward a Manifesto on Genre Diversity
Recently at a music conference “radio panel” I found myself apologizing for the number of genres I use on my new album (country, power …
The Presumptuousness of the Singer-Songwriter
Anyone who has gotten up to sing an original song in front of a crowd walks a tightrope between the twin poles of humiliating …
Music Wants to Be Free, Musicians Want to Be Paid
Musician Bemoans Death of the Music Business It all sounded very appealing thirty years ago when a Bay Area programmer first explained to me …