Here is a theoretical constitutional law question. The US Constitution allows for write-in candidates and restricts the President to two consecutive terms. What would happen if, in 2016 enough people wrote in the name of Barack Obama for the Presidency for him to win both the Electoral College and the popular vote?

Every promise evokes strong emotions and expectations, but the nature of those emotions and expectations depend on the knowledge and perspective of the one receiving the promises.

The Game is Rigged

The history we are creating is a product of the choices we have made along our journey, but humans have a tendency to overestimate the influence that the choices that they make have on their history. This is driven by a desire to separate themselves from the non-human species, whose behavior we claim is hardwired in their DNA. But how valid is that perspective? The truth is that we do not have sole control over our choices, either as individuals or as groups. Freedom of choice is only an illusion. We all do what we are driven to do by forces over which we have no control.

We seem unwilling to learn the only lesson that decades of science has taught us -- that nature always does what it wants to do and cannot be made to do what it does not want to do.

Being able to observe or to make observations is not the same as being observant. The first two are part of the scientific method but it is only the third that sets the scientific method into motion. We participate in the first two because of our individual skill but the third occurs because of our humanity.

Humans do not kill because of what is in their hands but because of what is in their minds.

The purpose of science is not to satisfy human curiosity but to ensure human survival. Why is it that we have stopped doing any real science? Science has now become high tech journalism, reporting on what has been observed. That is not true science.

All we do is report on what we observe. Science is not involved in the quest to ensure human survival. The greatest threat to human survival is not in our environment but among ourselves. Science has restricted itself to the study of the environment. That is, to put it kindly, voyeurism.