Why Is Education Like Voting?

because even as knowledge might be power
the further it spreads the less rewarding it gets,
and the greatest gain will always be
where they are in their greatest quantity.  

The Pizza Effect

is the name for how much an idea changes
as it changes location, as long as the ingredients
remain the same. What gets a thing accepted
is a lack of discernment because of reduced choice.

My Last Christmas Card Of 2015

Even as it arrived late it added a certain frosty cheer to the celebrations.

Turning Boredom With The World Into Bad Science

One of the more depressing phrases
in the English language is the journalese
of 'A study finds....  ' near the start
of what purports to be a news item.
It means that the newspaper
(insert your choice of Press here)
has lost interest in what is actually happening,
and to tickle our jaded palates
has sent one of its lesser reporters
to find a science story the paper can inflate
the hoped for result of with false headlines.
Leaving the research as a-work-in-progress
which won't be compete for a long time to come. 

Blacking Up

Domestic politics is the pot telling the kettle
that the kettle is blacker than the pot
without providing the proof to black it up.

Thought For The New Year Sales

Because organization will always beat disorganization and crime never loses in the long run, mostly it changes the law to give itself cover, as the present public debate about tax evasion/avoidance proves.

Titles And Talents

We have to be a jacks of many trades
to make modern life work for us,
in ways that we are often shy about counting.
This was even truer for those housewives
whose skills in organizing households
went uncredited by everyone
who was so well kept in the past.

But queens and kings
can rarely do anything
without help from servants.