Whatever you tax, you discourage... so why do we tax payroll?

The more you tax cigarettes...
The less people smoke.

The higher the toll on the tollway...
The more people look for detours.

So when we tax payroll...
We are discouraging jobs and pay.

We discourage the wrongs things.
We're taxing the wrong thing when we tax payroll.

Growth is Good

When we grow things
Good things happen.

When trees grow
They harvest carbon dioxide.

They also soak up the sun,
Storing the energy in the wood.

So the more things we grow...
The more we clean up our air.

We should grow more things.

Getting Better All The Time... by Piddling Around

There is no shortage of trouble for humanity...

There is much that causes despair.

For many of us, we are rich.

The seemingly intractable problems of the oppressed are not ours.

The task of caring for our Earth...

And the BILLIONS of God-forsaken unfortunates...

It just seems Sisyphean... 

An impossible task... 

But my despair is only temporary... 

Because I have hope.

Because some really big ideas

Will be batted around and will take hold.

And our world will be revolutionized...

By well-directed growth.

Then truth and freedom will prosper.

And greater peace will be found.

We will still have problems...

But homelessness and hunger won't be the scourge of humanity.

The vision of the Uncertain Prophet...

Is 'Directed Growth'

Where we grow a new free world

And solve our most pressing problems.

All of the zealots 

can be granted domains.

Utopias can be pursued.

Anyone can freely migrate.

Murder is unnecessary.

Our climate is controlled.

The prophecy is uncertain.

All it needs is some piddling.

So today I piddle.

And I share some of the vision.

Maybe future readers will piddle, too.

And the vision will be shared and it will spark the revolution.

Life can be beautiful.

The Ground Zero Mosque and a call for Grace

The Christian thing to do is to show grace toward the mosque... and Islam.  Not all Muslims are jihadis; not all Christians were crusaders.


The American thing to do is to show them religious freedom.  Newt Gingrich is willing to sacrifice our religious liberty... our American freedom... because another country is religiously intolerant?  We should not sin because another country sins.


The intelligent thing to do is to communicate and listen.  I have heard Islamic voices calling for peace.  We should listen.


Here is a vote for peace and freedom...


God wants us to be free... it is the path to peace.


your friend,


the Uncertain Prophet


(Thanks to Dr. Smith for this link: http://www.ethicsdaily.com/news.php?viewStory=16536)