Chapter two of the story of Percy and Thomas and the Magic Balloons. Part one is called Phlogiston 14.

Ways to fix government, make it more accountable, and Vermont political culture.

Right now, before the South Carolina Democratic Primary, Black history month and all, I can't help but re-visit issues: federal versus local power, discrepancies in wealth, and politics.

A serial novel. Stay tuned! Oliver Pflaum, writer, composer of theme music, performed by Cooper Raposo, reader, a novel in episodes, the story of a land and a family, of the spirit of the Nagas, a land in a plateau with only one pass in and out guarded by flies with a fatal bite, the secret of the Racad known only to the priests of the Racad, Shi Po, the granddaughter of the Great Bumo, priest and general... All rights reserved. Copyright 2016 by Oliver Pflaum.

(after some other stories and jokes for kids the story begins) Czechoslovakia was too hard to spell! So, it had to be divided into two countries Check and Slow-vakia. Buddha and Pest got together. Meanwhile Belgium is threatening to become Bell and Igum. Also, fly to the top of the mountain and we'll head to the island of wild donkeys from there.

What kind of noise law is this? Beat frequency? You mean 110 BPM is allowed but not 84? " No noise emanating from the business which is excessive, unnecessary or unusual due to volume, intermittence, beat frequency or shrillness, such that the same shall be perceptible outside the property from where it originates, shall be permitted."

Frank Serpico (wikipedia if you don't know who he is)... and me talking to the FBI. Cover a lot of territory.

James Brown and Bernie Sanders?

From our earliest literature to recent genetic research there seems to be an issue with the Y chromosone. How powerful is this tendency? Is biology destiny?

Did you know you have a right to information? Here I make a case for a constitutional right to information and open government in the US Constitution under the ninth amendment.