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Health Insurance Woes- Five ways they screw us over and how to fight back
"I have had a couple of Medical PPO Insurance Companies over the Years. Our large Aerospace Company recently switched our Healthcare...
Dan Connors
Oct 24, 20238 min read


The Heat Will Kill You First
The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet Jeff Goodell 2023 "If there is one idea in this book that...
Dan Connors
Oct 20, 20235 min read


Can computer coders make government more user-friendly?
Recoding America: Why Government Is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better Jennifer Pahlka 2023 "We strive to reach people...
Dan Connors
Oct 17, 20235 min read


How do rich and powerful people get away with everything?
Untouchable: How Powerful People Get Away With It Elie Honig 2023 "This is no defeatist eulogy for our justice system. This is,...
Dan Connors
Sep 27, 20234 min read


We'd rather be dead than wrong?
Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us Sara E. Gorman, Jack M. Gorman 2016 "Two flat earthers die and go...
Dan Connors
Sep 21, 20234 min read


Tax the guy behind the tree
"Don't tax you, don't tax me, tax that fellow behind the tree!" Senator Russell Long Taxes are more complicated than anyone can imagine. ...
Dan Connors
Sep 21, 20233 min read


Scapegoats- Convenient vessels for our sins and problems?
“A group of Nazis surrounded an elderly Berlin Jew and demanded of him, ‘Tell us, Jew, who caused the war?’ The little Jew was no fool....
Dan Connors
Aug 24, 20235 min read


Future me- who is that guy and why should I care about him?
Your Future Self: How to Make Tomorrow Better Today Hal Hershfield 2023 "The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of...
Dan Connors
Aug 21, 20235 min read


Make the vice presidency relevant again
"The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived." John Adams "It's easy being vice...
Dan Connors
Aug 15, 20234 min read


The Creative Act- Making something out of nothing
The Creative Act: A Way of Being Rick Rubin 2023 The act of creation is a uniquely human act. Ideally, it is a way for our soul to...
Dan Connors
Aug 10, 20235 min read


Uninhabitable Earth- How Screwed Are We?
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells 2019 “It is worse, much worse, than you think. The slowness of climate...
Dan Connors
Aug 8, 20233 min read


The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour- Laughs, Music, and Rebellion
"Freedom of expression and freedom of speech aren’t really important, unless they’re heard. The freedom of hearing is as important as...
Dan Connors
Aug 7, 20235 min read


More & more- is our addiction to more helping or hurting?
The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where to Go from Here Hope Jahren 2020 “All species will go extinct eventually,...
Dan Connors
Aug 1, 20233 min read


Is celebrity worship making us downgrade friends and neighbors?
Celebrity Nation: How America Evolved into a Culture of Fans and Followers Landon Y. Jones 2023 "Fame is a by-product. Fame is...
Dan Connors
Jul 19, 20234 min read


Jeff Bezos' ex-wife Mackenzie Scott and her revolution in giving.
Are the rich getting richer? I have nothing in particular against the rich, but the problem of increasing income inequality has gotten...
Dan Connors
Jul 12, 20234 min read


Family Ties- the show where family and comedy were more important than politics
Imagine if the popular sitcom All in the Family were reversed- with two liberal parents raising a conservative child. The comedic...
Dan Connors
Jul 6, 20236 min read


Do disasters bring out the best in us?
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster Rebecca Solnit 2009 “This is a paradise of rising to the...
Dan Connors
Jul 3, 20234 min read


Katie Porter - one of the few good ones
I Swear: Politics Is Messier Than My Minivan Katie Porter 2023 “If you’re full of bullshit, I’m coming for ya, I just don’t have...
Dan Connors
Jun 25, 20234 min read


The Happiest Man in the World? How a Tibetan Monk stunned the world of science.
“I have also come to understand that although some people are naturally happier than others, their happiness is still vulnerable and...
Dan Connors
Jun 19, 20235 min read


Friendship- the invisible bond that makes life worth living
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make—and Keep—Friends Marisa G. Franco 2022 "A friend is someone who...
Dan Connors
Jun 14, 20238 min read
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