PeteFree.comWhat Was New on this Website (Jul-Dec 2010)
30 December 2010
Ain’t Gonna Do What We Should, ‘til the Economic Finality Axe Chops Our Silly Heads — Why an Increased Gasoline Tax Would Boost National Security (30 December 2010)
29 December 2010
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28 December 2010
Global Crop Diversity Trust to Find and Preserve Wild Relatives of Food Crops in Preparation for Climate Change (28 December 2010)
27 December 2010
Alcohol, Impulsivity, and a Finnish Gene — Implications for Freedom of Will and Genetic Manipulation (27 December 2010)
25 December 2010
Holiday Perspective — Mindful of Airmen, Seamen, Soldiers, and Marines in a Time of War (25 December 2010)
23 December 2010
Fate and Probability’s Tipping Hand — Mallory and Irvine on Everest in 1924 — an 18 Millibar Drop in Barometric Pressure (23 December 2010)
22 December 2010
A Case of “Maybe-Science” — Questions regarding a Computed “Fossil Genome” (22 December 2010)
21 December 2010
Honeywell 5·2 Day Programmable House Thermostat Model Number RTH-6350D — Review (21 December 2010)
20 December 2010
A Hypocrite’s Tears — Speaker Boehner’s False Allegiance to Children’s Needs (20 December 2010)
17 December 2010
Bigamy with the Two Political Extremes — David Brooks’ Idea on How to Deal with Stalemated Polarization (17 December 2010)
16 December 2010
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14 December 2010
Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg, and the Applicability of His Ideas in the United States (14 December 2010)
13 December 2010
Beijing’s Smile and the Demise of U.S. Competitiveness — An Economic Parable in the Making (13 December 2010)
12 December 2010
Professor William Easterly’s Attack on Bono using John Lennon’s Halo as a Club (12 December 2010)
10 December 2010
The Obama Tax Cut Extension Compromise as an Indication of Cultural Short-Sightedness (10 December 2010)
09 December 2010
Piracy, Dumping the Problem on Kenya — an Example of the Developed World’s Greed
(09 December 2010)
08 December 2010
The President’s Predecessors Must Marvel at His Political Incompetence — the Tax Cut Extension Fiasco (08 December 2010)
07 December 2010
Boreal Biomass Burning — an Escalating Contribution to Climate Change? (07 December 2010)
06 December 2010
Deficit Reduction — Culturally Characteristic Fuzzy Thinking from Critics of the Bowles-Simpson Plan (06 December 2010)
05 December 2010
I’m Supposed to Care about Charlie Rangel’s Censure, as if It Were Some Sort of Paradigmatic American Sorrow, when People Are Dying in Combat in Afghanistan? (05 December 2010)
03 December 2010
President Wimp (03 December 2010)
02 December 2010
From Banks Too Big To Fail to Bigger Still — another Failure of American Government (02 December 2010)
30 November 2010
How to Recreate Dreamweaver CS4 Files on a New Computer after Your Old Computer Dies (22 November 2010)
24 November 2010
What Will Our Children’s Kids Aspire to When They Look Up at the Night Sky? (24 November 2010)
23 November 2010
Columnist David Brooks, an Insightful Observer, Says Deficit Reduction Is Hopeless for at Least the Medium Term — and a Comment on Spiritual Hubris (23 November 2010)
Sarah Palin Is a Political Force to Be Reckoned with — and Opposed for the Good of the Nation (23 November 2010)
11 November 2010
Veterans Day (11 November 2010)
10 November 2010
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09 November 2010
Fotodiox m42 Screwmount to Sony Alpha Mount Camera Lens Adapter ─ Home Grinding and Drilling to Make it Function Properly (09 November 2010)
08 November 2010
How a Society Treats Women and Girls May Be the Best Off-the-Cuff Indicator of its Ethical Worth ─ a Minor Rumination on the Morality of Accepting Culture or Forcing Change (08 November 2010)
05 November 2010
Respect Where Due ─ Nancy Pelosi, the Competent Grown-Up Most Everyone Loves to (Pretend) to Hate (05 November 2010)
04 November 2010
Perspective against Apathy ─ The Washington Post’s “Faces of the Fallen” (04 November 2010)
03 November 2010
Agriculture’s Regional Effect on Climate ─ a Short and Interesting Study by Paul C. West and Colleagues
(03 November 2010)
02 November 2010
The New Afghanistan Plan, Negotiating with the Taliban ─ Just How Successful Will that Be?
(02 November 2010)
01 November 2010
Atomic Optical Clocks Demonstrate Slowing and Speeding of Time per Relative Speed or Proximity to Mass (01 November 2010)
30 October 2010
The First Bookless, Fully Electronic Library
(30 October 2010)
29 October 2010
Danno and Pontiac, Both Gone ─ Reminders of an Era that Was Sometimes (for Some People) More Fun than this One (29 October 2010)
27 October 2010
Racially Motivated Unlawful Detention (Stop-and-Frisk) Allegedly Continue in New York City Law Enforcement (26 October 2010)
26 October 2010
United States Drops Out of the Top 20 Least Corrupt Places to Live and Work (26 October 2010)
24 October 2010
Becoming Artisans, Is that a Way to National Economic Hopefulness? ─ Probably Not (24 October 2010)
23 October 2010
Pharmaceutical Testing and Its Placebos ─ Even the Most Basic Utilitarian and Scientific Principles Are Often Ignored (23 October 2010)
In Memoriam for All Who Have Fallen ─ Army Ranger Sgt. First Class Lance Vogeler ─ Killed on His Twelfth Deployment (23 October 2010)
22 October 2010
Behind the Shouting Decay that Marks American Politics, Science Still Has its Hope-Inspiring Triumphs ─ the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe
(21 October 2010)
Financial Institutions Stole Americans’ Money, Created the Foreclosure Crisis, and Clouded Title to Real Estate ─ How’s that for Plutocracy in Action?
(22 October 2010)
21 October 2010
Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) Are Still Not Adequately Protecting Patients (21 October 2010)
Political Anger for Its Own Sake Does Not Solve Anything ─ It Shuts Down the Mind, Making Constructive Change Difficult (21 October 2010)
20 October 2010
Even Former Ambassadors Can Think in Surprisingly Flawed Terms ─ Former Bush Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad Wants to Invade Pakistan to Improve the Situation in Afghanistan (19 October 2010)
19 October 2010
Gandhi’s Crew, A Morality Play for Our Times ─ the Great Person Theory of Leadership Ignores the Other Critically Important People Who Made It Work
(19 October 2010)
President Obama’s Introverted Equilibrium Probably Tripped Him Up, when He Failed to Recognize the Importance of Job Creation for Mid-Term Election Success (19 October 2010)
18 October 2010
16 October 2010
Oral Bisphosphonates Used Long-Term Increase Risk of Esophageal Cancer, but Absolute Risk Remains Small ─ an Illustration of the Need to Evaluate Absolute as Well as Relative Risk
(16 October 2010)
15 October 2010
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14 October 2010
War Breeds War Crimes by its Nature ─ but High-Ranking Rogue Leadership and a Non-Functioning Chain of Supervisory Command Should Not Contribute to Them (14 October 2010)
A Hopeful Education and Cultural Experiment in Oman Is Not Transferable to Afghanistan ─ A Conservative View (14 October 2010)
13 October 2010
Inertia in Medicine Sometimes Defies Common Sense ─ Unnecessary Cancer Screenings in Advanced Cancer Patients (13 October 2010)
12 October 2010
Turning the Military’s Dead into Political Ploys at Arlington National Cemetery ─ Can We Get any More Morally Revolting? (12 October 2010)
Climate Science Complexities Overwhelm Our Current Ability to Accurately Predict the Consequences of Global Warming ─ that Means We Have to Think More Realistically about a Package of Solutions
(12 October 2010)
11 October 2010
Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker Article Reveals Details about the Death of the Energy Bill in the Senate ─ an Exercise in Dysfunctional Government and Failed Presidential Leadership (11 October 2010)
10 October 2010
A Step Forward in Identifying the Causes of Honey Bee Colony Collapse Disorder ─ and a Statement regarding Why Science Is Important (10 October 2010)
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08 October 2010
Another Step in the New American Way to Self-Destruction ─ New Jersey Governor Chris Christie Cancelled the Much Needed Hudson River Tunnel
(08 October 2010)
07 October 2010
Green Energy Substitution Is Not a Realistic Solution to Carbon Emissions in the Short and Medium Terms ─ Our Planning Needs to More Realistic
(07 October 2010)
It Is Hard to Stay Credible if One’s Behavior Is Not Credible ─ The Obama Administration Continued to Shoot Itself in the Foot during BP’s Gulf of Mexico Oil Gusher (06 October 2010)
06 October 2010
If Americans Could Vote for Underfunded, Centrist, Anti-Plutocratic Third Party Candidates ─ Would They? (06 October 2010)
05 October 2010
House Minority Leader John Boehner ─ A Shining Example of Plutocracy Running Government
(05 October 2010)
01 October 2010
Nuclear Waste Disposal Continues to Plague the United States ─ Does No One Have Persuasive Common Sense? (01 October 2010)
Charles Krauthammer’s Conservative Political Criticism of the Commander in Chief Parallels My Centrist One ─ The President Has Put Himself in an Untenable Strategic Position at the Expense of Other People’s Lives (01 October 2010)
30 September 2010
The American Political and Economic Situations Are Bad ─ Even Columnist Thomas Friedman Is No Longer Temperate about Them (29 September 2010)
29 September 2010
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27 September 2010
Challenging China’s Back-Door Protectionism May Be Necessary as the Lesser of Evils
(27 September 2010)
26 September 2010
China Is Looking toward the Future ─ What Are We Doing? ─ Pretty Much Zip (26 September 2010)
24 September 2010
An Ambivalent Commander in Chief Worsens a Bad Situation in Afghanistan (24 September 2010)
Philip K. Howard, David Brooks, and a Call to Personal and Positional Responsibility ─ Transitioning from a Currently Failing Culture into a Successful One
(24 September 2010)
23 September 2010
The New York Times’ “A Year at War” ─ A Visual and Narrative Story with Soulful Meaning
(23 September 2010)
22 September 2010
Pauline Wiessner’s Engaged Anthropology and a Penetrating Vignette of Technological Infrastructure’s Uneven Global Advance ─ Small Lessons for the Developed World (22 September 2010)
Chinese Humor Highlights America’s Economic and Political Conundrum (22 September 2010)
21 September 2010
Tinnitus Involves Signaling along the Brain’s Interacting Neural Networks ─ Effectively Treating the Disorder Will Be Complicated (21 September 2010)
20 September 2010
China’s Leaders Are Mostly Scientists and Engineers ─ So They Don’t Waste Time and Opportunity by Arguing about Reasonably Certain Scientific and Economic Realities (20 September 2010)
Is Accurate Thinking in Politics an Educable Trait? ─ Democracy Fails if It Is Not (20 September 2010)
19 September 2010
How to Change the American Soul, as Applied to Education, without Getting Politically Shot Down
(19 September 2010)
15 September 2010
Educational Reform Requires Fixing the American Soul (15 September 2010)
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13 September 2010
Improving American Education Is about Culture, More than It Is about Teachers, Buildings, and Books
(13 September 2010)
11 September 2010
Acting as if Perfect Security Is Achievable Is Strategically and Morally Unwise ─ The Primary Analytical Flaw underlying Our Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan (11 September 2010)
09 September 2010
Selecting an Intelligent Mission and Sticking to it Is Important
(09 September 2009)
08 September 2010
Burning the Koran (Quran) ─ A Vicious Christian Church Presents a National Security Problem
(08 September 2010)
05 September 2010
Can Two Identical Cars Exhibit a Difference in Anthropomorphic Welcoming? ─ A Way to Enlightenment (05 September 2010)
02 September 2010
Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki ─ Trying to Do What Is Right against a Tide of Government Inertia (02 September 2010)
30 August 2010
Redline d440 29er Review (30 August 2010)
26 August 2010
Well-Meaning Foreign Critics Could Become the American People’s Best Friends, If We Seriously Considered their Insights (26 August 2010)
25 August 2010
If We Were All as Obtuse as the Food and Drug Administration, Our Genes Would Have Died Out Long Ago ─ The FDA Rejected the Idea of Emulating Britain’s Success in Reducing Egg Salmonella
(24 August 2010)
24 August 2010
2003 Subaru Forester 2.5 XS Review (24 August 2010)
23 August 2010
Hanging Our Troops Out to Bleed ─ Politicians’ Islamic Cultural Center Button-Pushing Puts Our Troops into More Danger (23 August 2010)
21 August 2010
Octane Fitness 37e Elliptical Trainer Review
(21 August 2010)
19 August 2010
Sony DSLR-A500 Review (19 August 2010)
18 August 2010
Two Good Video Editing Programs for Beginners ─ Pinnacle Studio Ultimate 14 and CyberLink PowerDirector 8 (17 August 2010)
17 August 2010
2008 Lawn-Boy Platinum 21 Inch Mulching/Rear Bag Convertible Self-propelled Lawnmower: Model 10797 Review (17 August 2010)
10 August 2010
05 August 2010
Government’s Fake-Science in its BP Residual Oil Spill Estimate (05 August 2010)
Contemptible U.S. Senate Exposed by George Packer and David Broder ─ American Republic’s Looming Failure Captured in a Nutshell (05 August 2010)
02 August 2010
Making the Economy Worse by Saying We Cannot Do Anything about Avoidable Problems (02 August 2010)
The United States Is Losing Freedom’s Heritage
(12 April 2010)
27 July 2010
Missing the Point in Afghanistan ─ Starting Wars Almost Always Escalates Violence toward Uncontrollable, Undesirable Strategic Effects (27 July 2010)
20 July 2010
Arrogant Complacence in Medical Practice and Institutions Kills Thousands of People Annually ─ Self-Regulation Is Not the Answer (20 July 2010)
19 July 2010
Government Gets Bigger, Does Less, Costs More, and Leaves Us More Vulnerable than We Were Before ─ Franz Kafka and Kurt Vonnegut Would Laugh (19 July 2010)
18 July 2010
Love’s Communication Is Often Loaded with Psychic Bombs (18 July 2010)
14 July 2010
Gravitas that Conceals Devious or Mistaken Minds Is a Problem for the American Public (14 July 2010)
Casualty of War – One Soldier’s Psychic Strength in Stark Contrast with the Spinelessness of Our Political Leaders (03 July 2010)
11 July 2010
Is Life a Dream, as Some Spiritual Traditions Say It Is? (11 July 2010)
07 July 2010
Conceptual Thinking Aids and Hinders Rationality and Efficient Living ─ Awareness of the Paradox Is a Key to Wisdom (07 July 2010)
04 July 2010
Love Expends and Renews Itself Repeatedly to Maintain an Open Heart (04 July 2010)
02 July 2010
2008 LawnBoy Platinum 21 Inch Mulching/Rear Bag Convertible Self-propelled Lawnmower: Model 10797 Review (02 July 2010)
2008 Craftsman 550 Series 22 Inch Side Discharge/Mulching Lawnmower: Model 917.385142 Review (02 July 2010)
Claim of Having Created Synthetic Life Is Far Overblown (18 June 2010)
JUPITER Rosuvastatin Study Upended: Use of Statins in Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease Does Not Reduce All-cause Mortality (30 June 2010)
Not Caring about Others Increasingly Characterizes Our Society ─ In an Allegedly Christian Nation, Is this What You Think Jesus Would Do? (30 June 2010)