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Progress: how‘s that workin’ for us? [March 2009 CCT]

100 years ago we were in the early stages of trading in the horse for the horseless carriage. It’s a deal that has cost us several million lives in the century past–about a Vietnam War’s worth every year for decades now. Not pleasant deaths, most of them. And many times that number in injuries, maimings, …

November 29, 2011 – 5:48 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged | Comments (0)

[op-ed] What this world is coming to

This is a Janus column. Janus, the two faced god who faces simultaneously the future and the past. Perhaps those of us of a certain age (probably anything over 15 or 20) will come to be known as the Janus generation, (Gen Jan in the shorthand of generation naming), with one foot (and a big …

January 11, 2011 – 3:29 pm | By Brent | Posted in Columns | Tagged , | Comments (0)