I'll book you both for my Colony; you'll like it there; it's a Factory where I'm going to turn groping and grubbing automata into men.

Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court

• Some people in the recording industry want the government to install software and/or hardware in all new computers ("policeware") to prevent the owners from copying sound recordings, or exchanging them (e.g. through Napster). I receive royalties from intellectual property myself and I do not condone piracy in any form. However, the government has no more right to put monitoring software in your computer than it has to put a camera in your living room (or bedroom). Since elements of the recording industry (e.g. RIAA) are advocating such a course of action, perhaps it is time for them to become, as Star Trek's Borg might put it, irrelevant-- and this business model should be a good start.

• Published opinion columns on the Kyoto Protocol

• An overview of some of the deceptive and fraudulent arguments that are being used in lawsuits against firearm manufacturers
• As Mark Twain said, there are lies, damned lies, and statistics. Defense attorneys: I am probably qualified to supply expert testimony against some of the statistical arguments that are being used by gun control organizations (e.g. acting as co-counsels or friends of the court).

• Published opinion columns on health care
• Downloadable PowerPoint presentation on why health care providers should register to ISO 9000. About 2 Mb.

• Published opinion columns on labor relations and manufacturing