A Person's Basic Humanity Is

The Prize For Ultimate Inefficiency Goes To America. We Have Built In So Many Checks And Balances That Our 'leaders' Are The Most Thoroughly Hogtied Of Any On Earth.

Efficiency In Government Is A More Elusive Concept Than Efficiency In The Private Economy, Which May Be Measured Relatively Easily As Output Per Units Of Input. What Is The Government's 'output?'

Suppose That 'unsolved Mysteries' Called You With News Of A Long-lost Identical Twin. Would That Suddenly Make You Less Of A Person, Less Of An Individual? It Is Hard To See How. So, Why Would A Clone Be Different? Your Clone Would Be Raised In A Different Era By Different People - Like The Lost Identical Twin, Only Younger Than You.

I Wanted To Figure Out How Long To Cook Things. I Did Some Experiments And Then Wrote A Program Using Mathematica To Model How Heat Is Transferred Through Food.

The Reason Societies With Democratic Governments Are Better Places To Live In Than Their Alternatives Isn't Because Of Some Goodness Intrinsic To Democracy, But Because Its Hopeless Inefficiency Helps Blunt The Basic Potential For Evil.