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2003

September 21, 2003 (Ted Turner's worst nightmare)
September 28, 2003 (power outages and Iowa)
October 5, 2003 (the do-not-call registry)
October 12, 2003 (expanding casino gambling)
October 19, 2003 (what stinks about Iowa tax rates)
October 26, 2003 (Iowa Emergency Management Director)
November 2, 2003 (the drought)
November 9, 2003 (paying for the public employees' retirement program)
November 16, 2003 (importing drugs from Canada isn't necessarily a good idea)
November 23, 2003 (how to help our servicemembers overseas)
November 30, 2003 (free trade is really good for Iowa)
December 7, 2003 (lost those darned notes)
December 14, 2003 (Saddam found in a hole)
December 21, 2003 (the last potpourri show we'll ever do)
December 28, 2003 (Gephardt's laughable "international minimum wage")

2004

January 4, 2004 (ridiculous things said at the Democratic debate)
January 11, 2004 (lost those darned notes)
January 18, 2004 (Iowa Caucuses)
January 25, 2004 (Bill Gates says he'll eliminate spam forever)
February 1, 2004 (the worst email worm ever)
February 8, 2004 (Presidents don't create jobs)
February 15, 2004 (raise our speed limits)
February 22, 2004 (save time on your taxes)
February 29, 2004 (the lies behind Social Security)
March 7, 2004 (skyrocketing tuition at state universities)
March 14, 2004 (Spanish voters give in to terrorism)
March 21, 2004 (killer health care costs)
March 28, 2004 (April Fool's Special: comic strips)
April 4, 2004 (find out who's behind high gas prices)
April 11, 2004 (Iowans: You owe $1.4 billion, and fighting graffiti)
April 18, 2004 (Iowa communities could live or die on Internet access)
April 25, 2004 (the English language's Enemies List)
May 2, 2004 (Is a bigger Iowa a better Iowa?)
May 9, 2004 (how to make sure your kids get good jobs)
May 16, 2004 (airfares in Des Moines)
May 23, 2004 (ten things that are going well today - part 1)
May 30, 2004 (ten things that are going well today - part 2)
June 6, 2004 (remembering Ronald Reagan)
June 13, 2004 (ten things to learn from Ronald Reagan)
June 20, 2004 (why the Des Moines/Polk County merger should flop)
June 27, 2004 (stop the "secret Bush draft plans" nonsense)
July 4, 2004 (ammunition for your next argument with a whiner)
July 11, 2004 (how universal health care won't solve our real problems)
July 18, 2004 (the good side of police discretion)
July 25, 2004 (what's making Iowa's small businesses go bankrupt)
August 1, 2004 (what's coming in 25 years)
August 8, 2004 (why you aren't shopping at Montgomery Ward's anymore)
August 15, 2004 (toll roads are great)
August 22, 2004 (where Rock the Vote can go)
August 29, 2004 (how either political party could win my vote)
September 5, 2004 (storm coverage)
September 12, 2004 (federal disaster aid)
September 19, 2004 (how the market solved the CBS/fake documents mystery)
September 26, 2004 (Mao rolls over in his grave...and we solve the battle of the sexes)
October 3, 2004 (buy your ticket to the moon...and why we don't get it about gambling)
October 10, 2004 (the report from New Orleans...and why we should take lessons from The Apprentice and use them to fight terrorism)
October 17, 2004 (we can't solve the Social Security problem by ignoring it)
October 24, 2004 (the hidden costs of a city-county merger)
October 31, 2004 (don't take away the Electoral College)
November 7, 2004 (the election's over, and now the world complains)
November 14, 2004 (jaywalking, fatty foods, and other things government should butt out of)
November 21, 2004 (NBA fighting and smoking bans)
November 28, 2004 (an alternative to the gas tax)
December 5, 2004 (Oliver Stone and his love note to Castro)
December 11, 2004 (Christmas wish lists)
December 12, 2004 (if markets are OK for "Apprentice" betting, why not for preventing terrorism?)
December 18, 2004 (switching to Firefox)
December 19, 2004 (China head-butts us with spam)
December 26, 2004

2005

January 2, 2005 (making 2005 a better year)
January 9, 2005
January 16, 2005
January 23, 2005
January 29, 2005 (traffic cameras)
January 30, 2005
February 6, 2005
February 13, 2005 (Small Business Development Centers)
February 19, 2005 (computer safety)
February 20, 2005 (Iowa's community colleges a better investment than Vision Iowa)
February 27, 2005
March 6, 2005
March 12, 2005 (weblogs)
March 13, 2005
March 19, 2005 (spyware...fat in French fries)
March 20, 2005
March 24, 2005 (cruise ships as retirement homes...the Flat Earth Society)
March 27, 2005
April 3, 2005
April 10, 2005 (Arizona border militias)
April 17, 2005
April 24, 2005
May 1, 2005
May 8, 2005 (government waste and wasting the government's time)
May 15, 2005 (time stuck in traffic, and why we say "clean as a whistle")
May 22, 2005
May 29, 2005 (what to do about the West Des Moines Wal-Mart controversy)
June 5, 2005 (computer fraud, roundabouts, and care packages for troops)
June 12, 2005
June 19, 2005 (why more regulations won't necessarily help solve credit card fraud)
June 26, 2005 (the Supreme Court has a plate of stupid for breakfast)
July 3, 2005 (Minnesota shuts down)
July 10, 2005
July 12, 2005 (filling in for Jan Mickelson)
July 17, 2005 (environmentalists and irrational politicians)

July 24, 2005 (dry weather and recycled water)
July 31, 2005 (passenger planes that refuel in mid-flight)
August 7, 2005
August 14, 2005 (joking about the "freshman 15" can mean expulsion)
August 21, 2005 (destructive movements rarely last)
August 28, 2005 (Hurricane Katrina on the way)
September 4, 2005 (assessing the Katrina disaster)
September 11, 2005 (the mass migration of Katrina evacuees)
September 18, 2005 (really big businesses often end up failing)
September 25, 2005 (how to evacuate a major city)
October 2, 2005 (broadband Internet everywhere)
October 9, 2005 (how much to spend housing evacuees)
October 16, 2005 (saving lives with the World Food Prize)
October 23, 2005 (drugmakers and their patents)
October 30, 2005
November 6, 2005 (natural disasters don't kill -- poverty does)
November 13, 2005
November 20, 2005 (rehabilitation and punishment)
November 27, 2005 (what our political priorities really should be)
December 4, 2005 (bailing out the big automakers)
December 10, 2005 (Wise Guys)
December 11, 2005 (ending the nanny state, from beer kegs to nutrition labels)
December 17, 2005 (Wise Guys)
December 18, 2005 (renewing the USA Patriot Act)
December 24, 2005 (Wise Guys)
December 25, 2005 (navigating charity)

2006

January 1, 2006 (parents need to just say "no")
January 8, 2006 (on not relying on the Federal government)
January 15, 2006 (socialism moves in down South)
January 22, 2006 (government should stop overreaching)
January 28, 2006 (Wise Guys)
January 29, 2006 (Congress wastes time on indecency)
February 5, 2006 (what Ben Franklin would think of us)
February 12, 2006 (eminent domain and e-mail spam)
February 18, 2006 (Wise Guys)
February 19, 2006 (paying university presidents)
February 25, 2006 (Wise Guys)
February 26, 2006 (Des Moines' thriftlessness)
March 4, 2006 (Wise Guys)
March 5, 2006 (how PowerPoint and bad writing can kill)
March 12, 2006 (severe weather)
March 18, 2006 (Wise Guys)
March 19, 2006 (banning junk food in schools)
March 25, 2006 (Wise Guys)
March 26, 2006 (getting real about immigration)
April 1, 2006 (Wise Guys)
April 2, 2006 (we're raiding the emergency fund)
April 8, 2006 (Wise Guys)
April 9, 2006 (Massachusetts's plan for mandatory health insurance)
April 15, 2006 (Wise Guys)
April 16, 2006 (tax day and dependency)
April 22, 2006 (Wise Guys)
April 23, 2006 (who spies on Internet users)
April 29, 2006 (Wise Guys)
April 30, 2006 (the $100 gas rebate and why it won't work)
May 7, 2006 (who gets what deals to stay in Iowa)
May 13, 2006 (Wise Guys)
May 14, 2006 (offering state-funded incentives leaves us exposed to extortion)
May 20, 2006 (Wise Guys)
May 21, 2006 (student loans and economic growth)
May 23, 2006 (Wise Guys)
May 27, 2006 (Wise Guys)
May 28, 2006 (preventing identity fraud through smaller government)
June 3, 2006 (Wise Guys)
June 4, 2006 (only a cruel world cares more about Britney than Borlaug)
June 11, 2006 (ratings for doctors)
June 17, 2006 (Wise Guys)
June 18, 2006 (getting teachers from overseas)
June 24, 2006 (Wise Guys)
June 25, 2006 (technology and freedom)
July 1, 2006 (Wise Guys)
July 2, 2006 (the value of spreading American ideals)
July 8, 2006 (Wise Guys)
July 9, 2006 (energy savings and air conditioning)
July 10, 2006 (Project Destiny)
July 15, 2006 (Wise Guys)
July 16, 2006 (what kind of security a CEO gets)
July 23, 2006 (creepy advertising and cash for finding security flaws)
July 29, 2006 (Wise Guys)
July 30, 2006 (if home prices stay flat, will Americans keep buying stuff?)
August 5, 2006 (Wise Guys)
August 6, 2006 (what FEMA should be buying instead of trailer homes)
August 13, 2006 (getting a grip on what really threatens us)
August 20, 2006 (how dumb it is to obsess about killers)
August 23, 2006 (bad music videos thanks to YouTube)
August 27, 2006 (one year after Katrina)
August 31, 2006 (dancing on treadmills and other nonsense)
September 3, 2006 (real sunlight at your desk)
September 9, 2006 (Wise Guys)
September 12, 2006 (snooty party invitations)
September 17, 2006 (no state money for startups, please)
September 24, 2006 (fish oil for kids)
October 1, 2006 (no progress in a thousand years for some)
October 6, 2006 (make Congress bigger)
October 8, 2006 (North Korea's nuclear test)
October 15, 2006 (why no massive casualties in the Hawaii earthquake)
October 29, 2006 (knowing when to shut up)
November 5, 2006 (if it has to be mandatory, it probably doesn't save money)
November 12, 2006 (who's running for President in 2006)
November 19, 2006 (the passing of Milton Friedman)
November 23, 2006 (turkey fryers)
November 24, 2006 (economics weblogs)
November 25, 2006 (Wise Guys)
November 26, 2006 (the connection between stock-market spam and terrorism)
December 9, 2006 (Wise Guys)
December 10, 2006 (trans-fat bans and other bad ideas)
December 16, 2006 (Wise Guys)
December 21, 2006 (no hugging at school)
December 22, 2006 (tips on avoiding identity theft)
December 25, 2006 (long live James Brown)
December 26, 2006 (what people are doing the day after Christmas)
December 27, 2006 (no one uses the old names anymore)
December 28, 2006 (best movies and worst role models)
December 29, 2006 (year-end planning and celebrity rivalries)

2007

January 1, 2007 (flying saucers at O'Hare)
January 6, 2007 (image spam...Windows Vista previews...Google Earth for emergencies)
January 7, 2007 (coaches' salaries aren't formed in a vacuum)
January 13, 2007 (Wise Guys)
January 14, 2007 (the Culver inaugural address)
January 20, 2007 (Wise Guys)
January 21, 2007 (why the Presidential race is already on)
January 27, 2007 (Wise Guys)
January 28, 2007 (saying one thing and believing another)
February 3, 2007 (Wise Guys)
February 4, 2007 (magazine fun)
February 10, 2007 (Wise Guys)
February 11, 2007 (notes missing)
February 12, 2007 (notes missing)
February 13, 2007 (the day after the snow)
February 14, 2007 (alternative approaches to Valentine's Day)
February 16, 2007 (bad planning through PowerPoint)
February 17, 2007 (Security Update)
February 18, 2007 (lower pay could mean more corruption)
February 24, 2007 (Wise Guys)
February 25, 2007 (stupid tax breaks)
March 4, 2007 (a ban on McDonald's?)
March 10, 2007 (renewable energy...taxing cable TV...Daylight Saving Time)
March 11, 2007 (carbon neutrality hurts)
March 17, 2007 (Wise Guys)
March 18, 2007 (personal debt, calling cards)
March 24, 2007 (Wise Guys)
March 25, 2007 (advice to a 22-year-old)
March 31, 2007 (Wise Guys)
April 1, 2007 (special two-hour show)
April 7, 2007 (Wise Guys)
April 8, 2007 (how much a car company is really worth)
April 15, 2007 (notes missing)
April 22, 2007 (notes missing)
April 29, 2007 (Bill Cosby: our ambassador to space)
May 6, 2007 (elections just last too long)
May 12, 2007 (Wise Guys)
May 13, 2007 (please, no miniature cars)
May 19, 2007 (Wise Guys)
May 20, 2007 (why we can't wait any longer to fix money problems)
May 26, 2007 (Wise Guys)
May 27, 2007 (Caribbean casino gambling and pirated software)
June 2, 2007 (Wise Guys)
June 3, 2007 (Democratic candidates' debate...DVD diplomacy...discount wedding gowns)
June 8, 2007 (explosives as a bad hobby...protecting kids from abduction...aid to Africa)
June 10, 2007 (Republican candidates' debate...Project Destiny...the London Olympics logo)
June 11, 2007 (two sets of simultaneous sextuplets...the Auditor of State tells how bad it is...Google meets the Big Ten)
June 13, 2007 (credit out of control..."Ocean's 13"..."Freedomnomics")
June 16, 2007 (Wise Guys: MST3K, Patch Tuesday, and the new Safari browser for Windows)
June 17, 2007 (the sword and the book...stupid keg laws...94,000 families homeless)
June 23, 2007 (Wise Guys: Google's new data center...MovieMaker...the iPhone cometh)
June 24, 2007 (hurricane predictions gone bad...Google's new data center in Council Bluffs...free speech)
June 30, 2007 (notes missing)
July 1, 2007 (the paleo-future...lunch with Warren...Ben Stein's mortgage advice)
July 7, 2007 (cracking the iPhone...dragon stupidity...the Wii Exercise Plan)
July 8, 2007 (Project Destiny...Mark Cuban's billions...red-light cameras cause more accidents)
July 14, 2007 (Wise Guys: Internet fraud...the Wii "shortage"...solar cells)
July 15, 2007 (why people leave Iowa...the Presidential field shrinks...the future of energy)
July 22, 2007 (satellite TV and dictators...presumed consent for organ donations...feeding the pig)
July 28, 2007 (Wise Guys: space travelling drunk...iPhone sales...the Burj Dubai)
July 29, 2007 (letter to Mark Cuban...less security through more security...talking with one's hands)
August 5, 2007 (no policy without a catastrophe...infinite life expectancy...where the oil is)
August 11, 2007 (space hotels...a replacement internet...free WiFi everywhere - or not)
August 12, 2007 (pre-school for some, not all...the mortgage bump...what kids know about economics)
August 18, 2007 (notes missing)
August 19, 2007 (preventative health care...sky-high P/E ratios...consumers running out of money)
August 20, 2007 (fishing for pirhanas...voting on the new ISU uniforms...advice for college freshmen)
August 25, 2007 (Wise Guys: efficient cars...the iPhone as IE4...debates on YouTube)
August 26, 2007 (seeing the future...how anti-terror surveillance could make terrorism easier...inflation taxes)
August 30, 2007 (campus safety...Big Brother warning alarms...honkless in Seattle)
September 1, 2007 (Wise Guys: bionic athletes...road traffic...social-networking trolls)
September 2, 2007 (the best place for a job...GM's hybrid SUV...fines for hugging)
September 3, 2007 (Generation Iowa)
September 8, 2007 (Wise Guys: bee death...dancing on the ceiling...a new technique for CPR)
September 9, 2007 (the world labor milestone...carrying cash...why economics really matters)
September 16, 2007 (unmanned machines of war...the 13,000-foot building...jaywalking tickets)
September 18, 2007 (the oldest man in the world...China's massive evacuation...headlights with wipers)
September 22, 2007 (asteroid defenses...a history of Yahoo and Google...smoke modeling)
September 23, 2007 (Obama's tax plan...gas prices of the future...nanotechnology)
September 30, 2007 (economic growth...printed organs...stopping nonsense in its tracks)
October 6, 2007 (15 minutes of Wise Guys)
October 7, 2007 (caucuses and the big states...garbage competition...border fences)
October 14, 2007 (notes missing)
October 21, 2007 (Russia's subsidized skyscraper...Coke in China...security screener success rates)
October 28, 2007 (falling house prices...the Medicare crisis...the value of a cancer vaccine)
November 2, 2007 (Des Moines community websites...scriptwriters on strike...evacuation plans for Polk County)
November 4, 2007 (still no talk of Medicare reform...Federal spending...Citigroup CEO quits)
November 5, 2007 (flooding in Mexico...dancing at work...coup d'etat in Pakistan)
November 11, 2007 (gas prices and passenger rail...wind power at home...popularizing science)
November 17, 2007 (Wise Guys: computers winning Nobel Prizes...trick search links...Patch Tuesday)
November 18, 2007 (monkeys like a square deal...restaurant density in Des Moines...censored cartoonists)
November 24, 2007 (bigger airplanes and bigger airports...Internet access for everyone...spam wins the e-mail war)
November 25, 2007 (Chinese espionage...developing Jamiaca...Middle East peace through jobs)
December 1, 2007 (genuine software...free presentation programs...heat in a power outage)
December 2, 2007 (China spends a fortune on airplanes...Chavez tries for a dictatorship...Google changes gears)
December 9, 2007 (stopping war with Iran...using currency to wage war...ice storms)
December 15, 2007 (getting better customer service...drug companies losing money...why websites are hard to read)
December 16, 2007 (peak oil...rising gas prices...incentive prizes)
December 22, 2007 (digital television...text-to-speech conversion...free antivirus)
December 23, 2007 (Earthpark misses Federal funding deadline...free programs for new computers...corruption in China)
December 29, 2007 (history of biological weapons...new technology meets old...the new energy bill)
December 30, 2007 (confiscation in Russia...the future for the next President...checking e-mail on vacation)
December 31, 2007 (John McCain...Medicare...New Year's traditions)

2008

January 1, 2008 (Chris Dodd...Duncan Hunter...manufacturing in America)
January 5, 2008 (Facebook privacy...unwitting downloads...data-collection rules)
January 6, 2008 (long-term health savings...Google knowledge...One Laptop Per Child)
January 12, 2008 (Chinese handheld computers...high-definition DVD types...flex-fuel cars)
January 13, 2008 (living standards...twins separated at birth...Moody's warns us about Federal debt)
January 19, 2008 (air-powered cars...rogue nuclear scientists...remote video surveillance)
January 20, 2008 (the economic-stimulus package we can't really afford)
January 26, 2008 (fire in Las Vegas...micro-laptops of the near future...super contact lenses)
January 27, 2008 (losing billions...return of Keynesian economics...durable investments)
February 2, 2008 (bacon salt...missing iPhones...Microsoft offers to buy Yahoo)
February 3, 2008 (Volcker endorses Obama...perpetual campaign season...making money on the Internet, for real)
February 10, 2008 (President Bush goes "Brewster's Millions"...too much state spending...the end of Netscape Navigator)
February 17, 2008 (Bloomberg dislikes the economic stimulus...knee-brace electricity...Ted Turner's buffalo)
February 24, 2008 (Fidel finally goes...bicycling...traffic cameras)
March 1, 2008 (laptops for college students...recovering lost e-mail...recording streaming audio)
March 2, 2008 (advertising for the future...what you need to know about Putin...the value of NAFTA)
March 8, 2008 (social networking on the job...invisible circuits...the Netflix Prize)
March 9, 2008 (what survived funnel week...Daylight Saving Time...spontaneous traffic jams)
March 15, 2008 (Google vs. the old gray lady...portal mergers...newspaper bloggers)
March 16, 2008 (text messages and threats...Chinese cyberterrorism...electrical grid reliability)
March 17, 2008 (divorcing Paul McCartney...protecting your computer for free...fly me to the Moon)
March 22, 2008 (Intel's cheap laptop...Safari for Windows...Guerrilla Mail)
March 23, 2008 (Bear Stearns bailout...pack mules of the future...viral videos)
March 29, 2008 (China's airport boom...curing blindness...antivirus software that won't work)
March 30, 2008 (entitlement spending still looms large...bans on junk food...free markets work)
April 5, 2008 (X-Prize for Genomics...computer chips with lasers...sunspots and climate change)
April 6, 2008 (consequences of knowing your genes...living much longer...buying microwaves in Cuba)
April 12, 2008 (I-235 speeds...file backups...food riots)
April 13, 2008 (income taxes...rising food prices...China and Tibet)
April 20, 2008 (more earthquakes will come...storing food...ten things to do in Des Moines)
April 26, 2008 (Mechanical Turk...laws of robotics...Cubs fans aren't crazy)
April 27, 2008 (climate change vs. national security...CNN t-shirts...the right communications tool for the right job)
May 3, 2008 (OEM software)
May 4, 2008 (new oil refineries...Russia and the natural-gas market...tax competition)
May 10, 2008 (PDF files...Microsoft gives up on Yahoo...video on cell phones)
May 11, 2008 (Microsoft needs to stop chasing Google...oil booms run out...the susceptibility of I-80)
May 17, 2008 (not your grandfather's privacy anymore...jet packs and lasers...designing your own websites)
May 18, 2008 (unemployment now lower than ever...recovering from a disasater...creative stop signs)
May 24, 2008 (the Gorillaz...Google's energy investments...putting economic-stimulus checks to work to save energy)
May 25, 2008 (show preempted by severe weather)
June 1, 2008 (the importance of voting in a primary...running out of Internet addresses...custom copies of the NY Times)
June 7, 2008 (motorcycles and efficiency...Automotive X-Prize...the time to switch to Vista)
June 8, 2008 (flooding across Iowa...robotic pets for the elderly...Tiananmen Square)
June 15, 2008
June 22, 2008 (stolen kitchen grease...landfills as banks...time to save)
June 28, 2008 (iPhone turns one...alternatives to Microsoft Excel...burning home videos to DVD)
June 29, 2008 (China has more cell-phone users than we have people...Bill Gates retires...what makes things funny)
July 5, 2008 (the end of Windows XP...getting Linux...who knows your YouTube viewing habits)
July 6, 2008 (fiscal independence for America...education in the future...Chinese troops on Segways)
July 12, 2008 (no bowling at the Olympics...the next-generation iPhone...Fake Steve Jobs retires)
July 13, 2008 (big trouble at the mortgage lenders...breakaway movements in China...working for a million dollars a year)
July 19, 2008 (golden tickets to space...high gas prices change the auto industry...cell phones become CCTV cameras)
July 20, 2008 (Ireland dumps the EU constitution...Katrina Cottages for Cedar Rapids...new prizes for energy innovations)
July 26, 2008 (bringing back the Streamline Era...Cuban microwave ovens...the problem with meta tags)
July 27, 2008 (bad predictions on gas prices...fixing enery problems...sounding like you look)
July 28, 2008 (flood recovery...Cedar Rapids pulls itself up by the bootstraps...free printable tools)
August 2, 2008 (roller-coaster absurdity...DVD rentals...the Apple Newton rises from the dead)
August 3, 2008 (China breaches the Great Firewall...free-trade talks fall apart...Bill Gates protects your bread)
August 10, 2008 (Bush meets Mao...no policy without a crisis...saving the humble penny)
August 16, 2008 (homemade telegraphy...mold kills family movies...Apple has a security problem)
August 17, 2008 (Russia's crony capitalism with weapons...incentives for school performance...nearly-universal broadband access)
August 23, 2008 (iTunes threatens Communism...Seinfeld shills for Microsoft...the electronic bomb)
August 24, 2008 (the shrinking Register...sunk costs...Obama's text-message stunt)
August 30, 2008 (stem cells from wisdom teeth...air-traffic control...iPhone pictures from the factory)
August 31, 2008 (windmills all over Adair County...electric cars...Hurricane Gustav approaches)
September 6, 2008 (Google Sites...Microsoft Update...Google Chrome)
September 7, 2008 (early warning for an aging population...nationalizing the mortgage companies...disaster costs get bigger)
September 13, 2008 (sidejacking...65-mpg cars...technology and employment)
September 14, 2008 (reporting from a hurricane...running out of fuel...today's homes on tomorrow's historic home tours)
September 21, 2008 (getting even with bad management...the $700 billion bailout...getting control of our debt)
September 28, 2008 (the bailout proposal reaches a vote...feeding astronauts and poor people...Chrysler's electric car)
October 5, 2008 (higher interest rates coming...paying attention to our southern friends...revisiting "no policy without a crisis")
October 11, 2008 (Gmail Goggles...backing up your data...technology hits the AP hard)
October 12, 2008 (financial meltdown meets a time of patience)
October 25, 2008 (Google's smartphone...Lamborghini police cars...fat cells becoming heart cells)
October 26, 2008 (the stock market is not the economy...saving General Motors...less independence for the Federal Reserve)
November 1, 2008 (getting spied on by your own webcam...Google wins a Book Search dispute...CNN's election holograms)
November 2, 2008 (watching "IOUSA"...a GM/Chrysler merger is considered...India goes to the Moon)
November 8, 2008 (ants in traffic jams...virus forwards...browsing the Internet safely)
November 9, 2008 (scoping a GM bailout...borrowing from a drug dealer...saving for a cold day)
November 16, 2008 (Obama, the brand...recession versus depression...more steps towards the surveillance society)
November 22, 2008 (bionic limbs...Buckminster Fuller...Gmail's new look)
November 23, 2008 (the stock market isn't the economy...worrying about Russia and Iran as oil prices fall...the best use of $25 billion)
November 29, 2008 (lasers in pilots' eyes...technology in the Obama White House...safer online shopping)
November 30, 2008 (why health care costs so much...how government should use technology...200,000 residential windmills)
December 7, 2008 (end of the Register's editorial cartoon...putting unemployment in perspective...saving the difference on gas prices)
December 13, 2008 (Google and the New York Times...unpatched programs...fake vintage advertising)
December 14, 2008 (a deep freeze...ambulances for Mumbai...the incomprehensibility of our national debt)
December 20, 2008 (no more Apple at MacWorld...getting updated on time...a little privacy for you)
December 21, 2008 (China needs more fun...money from the sky...saving lives via text message)
December 25, 2008 (charitable giving for the holidays)
December 28, 2008 (thoughts from a road trip...China butters up to Latin America...using technology to get out of trouble)
December 29, 2008 (payroll taxes or carbon taxes...local income taxes...fixing the levees before the next floods)
December 30, 2008 (how Iowa could export wind power...Stalin is one of Russia's most-admired...no breakup of the USA)
December 31, 2008 (banished words...identity cards become reality...China and greenhouse gases)

2009

January 3, 2009 (top technology breakthroughs in 2008...saving old family movies to DVD...MP3s and podcasts)
January 4, 2009 (incentive deals and your bottom line...long-term planning...problems we should get to fixing)
January 10, 2009 (no big news from MacWorld...Windows 7 on the way...radio on your iPhone)
January 11, 2009 (incremental steps towards better living...quarter-millennium businesses...the price of a kidney)
January 17, 2009 (Obama's Twitter page...Windows 7...a ban on plasma televisions)
January 18, 2009 (getting a lid on spending...sending more Iowans to school...what the NYC plane crash says about progress)
January 24, 2009 (the coming of 3D-TV...the President keeps his BlackBerry...the Vatican appears on YouTube)
January 25, 2009 (why Chicago should try not to get the Olympics...the flying car may soon be real...making real investments for the future)
January 31, 2009 (knowing which language you're using...more online education is needed...how to use antivirus software)
February 1, 2009 (Keynes vs. the free market...turning down a dictatorship deal...the Cedar Rapids Gazette boldly goes somewhere)
February 8, 2009 (vertical farms...Internet access around the world...Texas at 50 [million])
February 15, 2009 (records on X-ray films...size of the stimulus...the "somebody do something" fallacy)
February 21, 2009 (universal cell-phone charger...Iowa's almost-record-height towers...the space elevator)
February 22, 2009 (notes missing)
March 1, 2009 (notes missing)
March 8, 2009
March 14, 2009 (regulating flash mobs...Wozniak dances with the stars...choosing the right baby name)
March 15, 2009 (development and preservation of institutions...the national credit limit...trade wars)
March 21, 2009 (closed captioning in theaters...speeding up your computer...bacteria in space)
March 22, 2009 (podcasts only - show pre-empted by basketball)
March 28, 2009 (Internet Explorer 8 and standards compliance...thermal imaging of your home...universal broadband by mobile phone)
March 29, 2009 (the three-legged stool of American debt...breaking monopolies...the President fires the president of GM)
April 5, 2009 (taxes on top of taxes...how Communism might make Google better...teaching about technology in the classroom)
April 12, 2009
April 19, 2009
April 26, 2009
May 3, 2009
May 10, 2009
May 17, 2009
May 24, 2009
May 31, 2009 (the judgment economy)
June 6, 2009 (security in the air at the cost of privacy...saving digital and non-digital photos...innovation without domination)
June 7, 2009 (the government takeover of GM...eroding trust in the economy...debts we can't pay down)
June 14, 2009 (notes missing)
June 21, 2009
June 26, 2009 (cap and trade...innovation prizes...too much celebrity worship)
June 27, 2009 (opinion exhaustion...upgrading Windows...Steve Jobs and his liver transplant)
June 28, 2009 (brand loyalty over the long term...institutional memory and baseball...China's Great Firewall)
July 5, 2009 (adding new states to the USA...paying for our entitlement programs...how a two-party system always works)
July 11, 2009 (the Air France black box...cloud computing...the Google operating system)
July 12, 2009 (eating well at the State Fair...reforming health care...health care investment trusts)
July 18, 2009 ("One Week in June"...tethering cell phones...the future of skyscrapers)
July 19, 2009 (reforming health care)
July 25, 2009 (Redbox for road trips...Google Voice...going back to the Moon)
July 26, 2009 (reforming health care - part 2)
August 1, 2009 (fixing India's problems with technology...General Fusion...imperfect searches)
August 2, 2009 (cash for clunkers...debt...iPhones versus refrigerators)
August 9, 2009 (notes missing)
August 16, 2009 (notes missing)
August 23, 2009 (great oratory comes from distilling great ideas down to simple messages, not starting from the distillation)
August 29, 2009 (netbook hacking meets social engineering...copying the crooks to stay safe...the Zune player gets help)
August 30, 2009 (why Japan's election matters to us...fraudulent conveyance...stock-charting hocus-pocus returns)
September 6, 2009 (neuroscience and music...online identity...downloading the brain)
September 13, 2009 (archiving Congressional websites...saving institutional memory...fixing airport security)
September 20, 2009 (three cheers for the red marks on school papers...put more effort into investing than into buying a TV)
September 27, 2009 (it's better to know a reporter's bias than to keep it buried)
October 4, 2009 (notes missing)
October 11, 2009 (notes missing)
October 18, 2009 (it's not hard to make things work better, so we should try harder...a hot-air balloon stunt rewards the wrong people...fix copyright)
October 25, 2009 (across-the-board spending cuts aren't very efficient...spending "multipliers" are faulty)
November 1, 2009 (the Cubs are out to win a World Series...the White House didn't "save" a lot of jobs...take H1N1 seriously)
November 8, 2009 (public options for insurance may crowd out private options...that which cannot go on forever must stop)
November 14, 2009 (Google Alerts can help watch your reputation)
November 15, 2009 (don't trust the government to "create jobs"...regulating alcoholic beverages with caffeine)
November 22, 2009 (velvet suits and Velvet Revolutions..."recovery" spending isn't transparent...too much debt)
November 29, 2009 (falling computer prices...tax breaks that don't work...iPhones in an emergency)
December 6, 2009 (halfway between 1990 and 2030...Google officially gets into the energy business...General Motors boots its CEO)
December 13, 2009 (notes missing)
December 20, 2009 (honesty shouldn't be a news event...how much we owe...replacing the Metrodome)
December 27, 2009 (Future Scale update...really bad advice from the financial news media...risk-free investing)

2010

January 2, 2010 (Nexus One..."psychics" should be shouted down)
January 3, 2010 (high-speed rail for the Midwest...a genome break for cancer...the rise of the text message)
January 9, 2010 (Google releases the Nexus One...the Burj Dubai is finished...NASA finds the 422nd planet)
January 10, 2010 (the "somebody do something" fallacy...privacy as a "social norm")
January 17, 2010 (Haiti's earthquake made worse by poverty...Pat Robertson is irresponsible...lifesaving properties of economic growth) (partial transcript)
January 23, 2010 (donating to Haiti...custom manufacturing...free antivirus programs) (partial transcript)
January 24, 2010 (why McGwire should apologize...making Congress much larger...when government has too much power) (full transcript)
January 30, 2010 (Apple's iPad...surfing the Internet in your sleep...making the bionic leap) (full transcript)
January 31, 2010 (Google's plans for the long term...mobile Internet goes mainstream...gasoline and SUVs) (partial transcript)
February 6, 2010 (Intel vs. AMD...captions at movie theaters)
February 7, 2010 (Congress damages human rights by racking up debt)
February 13, 2010 (Winter Olympics...killing mosquitoes)
February 14, 2010 (lasting success is a matter of getting the little things right with mind-numbing consistency)
February 20, 2010 (school laptops going home with kids)
February 21, 2010 (our debt handcuffs are a tight fit)
February 28, 2010 (save your treasured memories to a digital backup somewhere safe before tornado season)
March 6, 2010 (how to prep a new computer...reacting to a hacked Facebook account)
March 7, 2010 (don't ban the specific distraction, ban driving while distracted)
March 13, 2010 (airships as cruise liners of the sky...using genius into age 115...viruses on flash drives)
March 14, 2010 (saving money in health care -- can the government really do it?)
March 20, 2010 (Google Fiber applications...broadband Internet far from the fiber...recovering old Hi-8 movies)
March 21, 2010 (health-care reform...salaries in perspective...the value of the Century Farm)
March 27, 2010 (favorite tech news links)
March 28, 2010 (notes missing)
April 3, 2010 (early observations on the iPad)
April 4, 2010 (notes missing)
April 11, 2010 (notes missing)
April 17, 2010 (notes missing)
April 18, 2010 (our collective knowledge of economics is still immature)
April 24, 2010 (smartphone news...fixing short circuits)
April 25, 2010 (notes missing)
May 1, 2010 (notes missing)
May 2, 2010 (notes missing)
May 8, 2010 (notes missing)
May 9, 2010 (notes missing)
May 15, 2010 (OpenOffice...websites to stop building)
May 16, 2010 (notes missing)
May 23, 2010 (notes missing)
May 30, 2010 (notes missing)
June 5, 2010 (self-driving cars...robots to the Moon...Patch Tuesday and other security updates)
June 6, 2010 (bad customer communication...Medicare the behemoth...not taxed enough yet)
June 13, 2010 (the Gulf oil spill...a gift to Haiti...the world's worst bureaucracy)
June 19, 2010 (how to evaluate cloud backup services...how to pick a smartphone)
June 20, 2010 (poverty is what kills people, not natural disasters alone...cell phones are aiding labor organizers in China)
June 26, 2010 (the rapid rise of smartphones...Google Voice is Google's experimentation lab for voice-to-text algorithms)
June 27, 2010 (cell phone data limits may be coming soon...flooding updates)
July 3, 2010 (cloud seeding...risk IQ...the voice of your GPS device)
July 4, 2010 (notes missing)
July 10, 2010 (backup strategies...Apple fanatics are like Deadheads...Futurama returns)
July 11, 2010 (notes missing)
July 17, 2010 (notes missing)
July 18, 2010 (notes missing)
July 24, 2010 (whooping cough in California...converting home movies to DVD...herd immunity for computers)
July 25, 2010 (notes missing)
July 31, 2010 (protecting Hotmail accounts...don't post your kids' pictures on Facebook...antivirus options)
August 1, 2010 (we're as capable as the Founding Fathers...Detroit jobs weren't "created" by the bailout, they were financed at high cost)
August 7, 2010 (some military links)
August 8, 2010 (severe-weather coverage preemption...Casey's struggles to remain independent)
August 14, 2010 (notes missing)
August 15, 2010 (notes missing)
August 21, 2010 (tips and tricks for better passwords...Google CEO thinks name changes might be the only escape from digital breadcrumb trails)
August 22, 2010 (notes missing)
August 28, 2010 (notes missing)
August 29, 2010 (notes missing)
September 5, 2010 (notes missing)
September 11, 2010 (how to sign off from a letter or email...halfway to 9/11 babies being able to vote)
September 12, 2010 (the "Bed Intruder Song"...more stimulus spending)
September 18, 2010 (notes missing)
September 19, 2010 (the best customer complaint letter you'll read today...the past wasn't so great, so stop mythologizing it)
September 26, 2010 (Nokia's lost lead...hereditary Communism)
October 3, 2010 (notes missing)
October 10, 2010 (no tweeting during an NFL game, and no driving while texting...nobody's a social-media "expert")
October 17, 2010 (babying big companies...Google gets smart by investing away from search engines)
October 24, 2010 (the enduring value of Charles Schulz...Benoit Mandelbrot passes away...institutional credibility online)
October 31, 2010 (Condoleezza Rice visits with Craig Ferguson...the flying car is here...well-educated people are moving to Iowa)
November 7, 2010 (people blow windfalls all the time -- don't make the same mistake if you ever get the chance)
November 14, 2010 (notes missing)
November 21, 2010 (notes missing)
November 28, 2010 (a 100-year plan for space travel...what may hold back the electric car)
December 5, 2010 (when offered a chance to sell out, take it...Google and Facebook can't stay on top forever)
December 11, 2010 (Google overprices Groupon..."Anonymous" starts vandalizing credit-card websites)
December 12, 2010 (the General Aristo Company...speech-to-text conversion...China buys influence with cash)
December 18, 2010 (replace the computer, not the BIOS...Kindle vs. Nook: Kindle wins...free programs)
December 19, 2010 (notes missing)
December 23, 2010 (doing business differently in the Midwest...some good charities...hot rods on the Bush lawn)
December 26, 2010 (introductions to Facebook...new technology but lazier work...Fred Rogers' asteroid)

2011

January 1, 2011
January 2, 2011
January 8, 2011
January 9, 2011
January 15, 2011 (iPhones on Verizon...smartphones...vanity domain names)
January 16, 2011
January 22, 2011
January 23, 2011
January 29, 2011
January 30, 2011
February 5, 2011
February 6, 2011
February 12, 2011
February 13, 2011
February 19, 2011
February 20, 2011
February 26, 2011
February 27, 2011
March 5, 2011
March 6, 2011
March 12, 2011 (five status updates you shouldn't share online)
March 13, 2011 (building codes don't help much if you can't pay for the technology to meet them)
March 19, 2011 (being an informed patient...paywalls for the New York Times...get your own domain name)
March 20, 2011
March 26, 2011
March 27, 2011
April 2, 2011
April 3, 2011 (there may be one thing China does better than we do)
April 9, 2011 (protect yourself from spoofing)
April 10, 2011
April 16, 2011
April 17, 2011
April 23, 2011
April 24, 2011
April 30, 2011
May 1, 2011
May 7, 2011
May 8, 2011 (wind power profits -- if we can handle the transmission lines)
May 14, 2011
May 15, 2011
May 21, 2011
May 22, 2011
May 28, 2011
May 29, 2011
June 4, 2011
June 5, 2011
June 11, 2011
June 12, 2011
June 18, 2011 (United Airlines had a huge computer crash)
June 19, 2011
June 25, 2011
June 26, 2011
July 2, 2011
July 3, 2011
July 9, 2011
July 10, 2011
July 16, 2011
July 17, 2011
July 23, 2011
July 24, 2011
July 30, 2011
July 31, 2011
August 6, 2011
August 7, 2011
August 13, 2011
August 14, 2011
August 20, 2011
August 21, 2011 (Google wants into making smartphones...a big stock-market plunge)
August 27, 2011
August 28, 2011
September 3, 2011
September 4, 2011
September 10, 2011
September 11, 2011
September 17, 2011
September 18, 2011
September 24, 2011
September 25, 2011
October 1, 2011
October 2, 2011
October 8, 2011
October 9, 2011
October 15, 2011
October 16, 2011
October 22, 2011
October 23, 2011
October 29, 2011
October 30, 2011
November 5, 2011
November 6, 2011
November 12, 2011
November 13, 2011
November 19, 2011
November 20, 2011 (budget talks collapse and we're back to the beginning again)
November 26, 2011
November 27, 2011
December 3, 2011
December 4, 2011
December 10, 2011 (hard-drive shortages...Apple's new headquarters...discount tablet computers)
December 11, 2011
December 17, 2011
December 18, 2011
December 24, 2011
December 25, 2011 (Iowa's low unemployment rate...higher expectations of the Vice President...Roth IRAs are smart)
December 31, 2011

2012

January 1, 2012
January 7, 2012
January 8, 2012
January 14, 2012
January 15, 2012 (unbelievable interest rates...debt downgrades in Europe...Facebook's blackmail value)
February 18, 2012 (Apple stock)
January 21, 2012
January 22, 2012
January 28, 2012
January 29, 2012
February 4, 2012
February 5, 2012
February 11, 2012
February 12, 2012
February 18, 2012
February 19, 2012
February 25, 2012
February 26, 2012
March 3, 2012
March 4, 2012
March 10, 2012
March 11, 2012
March 17, 2012
March 18, 2012
March 24, 2012
March 25, 2012
March 31, 2012
April 1, 2012
April 7, 2012
April 8, 2012
April 14, 2012
April 15, 2012
April 21, 2012
April 22, 2012
April 28, 2012
April 29, 2012
May 5, 2012
May 6, 2012
May 12, 2012
May 13, 2012 (shareholders and company supervision)
May 19, 2012
May 20, 2012
May 26, 2012
May 27, 2012
June 2, 2012
June 3, 2012
June 9, 2012
June 10, 2012
June 16, 2012
June 17, 2012
June 23, 2012
June 24, 2012
June 30, 2012
July 1, 2012 ()
July 7, 2012 ()
July 8, 2012 ()
July 14, 2012 ()
July 15, 2012 ()
July 21, 2012 ()
July 22, 2012 (the President disrespects business owners...outsourcing gone very wrong...science papers that get read)
July 28, 2012 ()
July 29, 2012 (high commodity prices...welcoming Cuba someday as the 51st state...bad grammar as a job disqualifier)
August 4, 2012 ()
August 5, 2012 ()
August 11, 2012 (getting all-natural...an iPad competitor from Lenovo)
August 12, 2012 ()
August 18, 2012 ()
August 19, 2012 ()
August 25, 2012 ()
August 26, 2012 ()
September 1, 2012 ()
September 2, 2012 (rituals and community)
September 8, 2012 ()
September 9, 2012 (lying on the Internet -- even about corporations -- hurts real people)
September 15, 2012 ()
September 16, 2012 (stop abusing the word "fundamentally")
September 22, 2012 ()
September 23, 2012 (how the Chicago Cubs teach economics)
September 29, 2012 ()
September 30, 2012 (a look at the Future Scale)
October 6, 2012 ()
October 7, 2012 (what if we gave 18-year-olds a cash endowment instead of promising them Social Security in the future?)
October 13, 2012 ()
October 14, 2012 ()
October 20, 2012 ()
October 21, 2012 ()
October 27, 2012 ()
October 28, 2012 ()
November 3, 2012 ()
November 4, 2012 (why there's nothing wrong with private equity -- or capital in general) (full transcript)
November 10, 2012 ()
November 11, 2012 (why a debt jubilee wouldn't really work) (full transcript)
November 17, 2012 ()
November 18, 2012 (regulating Google) (full transcript)
November 24, 2012 ()
November 25, 2012 (the Hostess bankruptcy) (full transcript)
December 2, 2012 (some crazy ideas that we should at least discuss out loud) (full transcript)
December 8, 2012 (Google Plus...Yelp lawsuit...Apple to manufacture at home)
December 9, 2012 (the need for more innovation prizes...private investment in infrastructure...America's P/E ratio) (full transcript)
December 11, 2012 (Michigan goes right-to-work)
December 15, 2012 ()
December 16, 2012 (mental health and sensationalization, the threat of deflation, and making America 2100 a better place) (full transcript)
December 22, 2012 ()
December 23, 2012 (the value of a good brand name) (full transcript)
December 29, 2012 ()
December 30, 2012 ()

2013

January 5, 2013 (more self-piloted cars...Apple without Steve Jobs...Twitter may be going public)
January 6, 2013 (a national attitude adjustment...real infrastructure investments...calling a truce in the economic-development civil war)
January 12, 2013 (Google Plus isn't going away...higher-efficiency cars mean higher taxes...appreciating the ordinary)
January 13, 2013 (Venezuela wastes a resource boom...Minnesota doesn't have enough saved for pensioners)
January 19, 2013 (Java security holes...living in the Judgment Economy era...Des Moines versus Silicon Valley)
January 20, 2013 (title inflation is stupid...banning energy drinks...rumormongering about Obamacare)
January 26, 2013 (Boeing 787s...Nokia's troubles...online degrees on the rise)
January 27, 2013 (hunger and politics)
February 2, 2013 (Internet routers are at risk...widespread security attacks...bulk file renaming)
February 3, 2013 (a toast to humility, competence, and curiosity)
February 6, 2013 (Van and Bonnie in the Morning - fill-in)
February 10, 2013 (Paul Krugman gets delusional...spam trails off...bulletproof glass in schools)
February 16, 2013 (roundabouts...bionic eyes...medals for drone pilots)
February 17, 2013 (diamonds...North Korea...the minimum wage)
February 24, 2013 (inflation and unemployment)
February 25, 2013 (how to give your kids a good start on the Internet)
March 2, 2013 (dealing with a hacked Yahoo account...know your memes...free websites)
March 3, 2013 (taxing stock sales...outsourcing our decisions...legal limits on executive pay)
March 10, 2013 (social businesses...North Korean madness...debt matters)
March 16, 2013 (Google's flakiness is getting bothersome)
March 17, 2013 (what we really need to help manufacturing...spending money rationally in pursuit of winning an irrational game)
March 23, 2013 (BlackBerry goes for broke...Google gets even flakier than before...Twitter turns seven)
March 24, 2013 (pensions and retirement savings are the 800-lb. gorilla in the room)
March 30, 2013 (America's true state boundaries...a Facebook smartphone is rumored...Google Maps need timestamps)
March 31, 2013 (young workers need opportunities to go to work, not obstacles...the "meh" economy...the need for self-piloted cars)
April 6, 2013 (the best kind of wearable computing...Facebook Home...no contracts at T-Mobile)
April 7, 2013 (money for nothing...Republicans should be for good government...high-risk mortgages are back)
April 13, 2013 (stop multi-tasking...virally bad ideas...television networks leaving the airwaves)
April 14, 2013 (death of Margaret Thatcher...putting the Federal budget in touch with reality...the savings shortfall)
April 20, 2013 (Microsoft makes money even without being cool...Apple keeps Siri records...Chinese obscenity)
April 21, 2013 (how to save better when you're not making much money)
April 27, 2013 (US Cellular customers in Chicago have a grievance...online sales taxes...password checklists)
April 28, 2013 (tragedy in a factory in Bangladesh...civic pride...bad reasons to cut judges' pay)
May 5, 2013 (getting comfortable with the natural stages of life and business)
May 11, 2013 (e-mail newsletters...getting around Internet blockades...hacking The Onion)
May 12, 2013 (topping off the World Trade Center...the dearth of "Mad Money" billionaires...the risks of youth unemployment)
May 18, 2013 (ten things everyone needs to consider before Google Glass goes mainstream)
May 19, 2013 (show preempted by severe weather)
May 25, 2013 (reflecting on Newsweek's move to all-digital...Yahoo buys Tumblr...cyberwarfare and our outdated infrastructure)
May 26, 2013 (we have to pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and get back to work)
June 1, 2013 ()
June 2, 2013 (the cliche that can make you rich)
June 9, 2013 (sharing our knowledge for a personal return-on-investment)
June 15, 2013 (surveillance...Facebook hashtags...Google's high-flying WiFi project)
June 16, 2013 (the process is at least as important as the result)
June 22, 2013 (immortality in many flavors)
June 23, 2013 (when not to join the family business...is global warming control the right investment?)
June 29, 2013 (BlackBerry's losing ways...malware on mobile devices...Feedly as a substitute for Google Reader)
June 30, 2013 (President Obama seeks a legacy via global warming)
July 6, 2013 (Bing's ecosystem expands)
July 7, 2013 (the Goldilocks Zone for patriotism...debt challenges our independence...free cities)
August 3, 2013 (smartphones...Google tries local news...the Boston Globe and Facebook stock)
August 4, 2013 (minimum wages and low-cost education...really owning your stock investments...a place for everything)
August 10, 2013 (tablets for every student can be an aimless dream or a real plan)
August 11, 2013 (buy low and sell fair)
August 17, 2013 (3D printing...the world's oldest person...Facebook's echo chamber)
August 18, 2013 (wisdom versus popularity...who really invests in the nation's infrastructure...productivity growth is too slow)
September 22, 2013 (the wrong kind of innovation in hockey...France's officially-socialist industrial plan)
September 23, 2013 (the new iPhone...BlackBerry's knight in shining armor...Nokia goes to Microsoft)
November 4, 2013 (what to do about ransomware)
November 17, 2013 (improving quality of life by increments and compounding)
November 24, 2013 (controlling the inner psychopath...private-sector experience matters in politics...France's auto industry turns to China)
November 30, 2013 (Twitter Tofu...Yahoo's mail problem)
December 1, 2013 (open-minded conservatives...NYC property-owners beware...Bill Gates and capitalism)

2014

January 4, 2014 (Twitter in a nutshell)
January 11, 2014 ("click like and share" spam will kill Facebook)
January 12, 2014 (a syllabus for America)
January 19, 2014 (how amazing the smartphone really is)
January 26, 2014 (stop the generational stereotyping and adopt real solutions)
February 2, 2014 (inequality can be a distraction from the real problem of poverty)
February 9, 2014 (Leno out, Fallon in, and doing something with that soapbox)
February 16, 2014 (five big leaps in the decades ahead)
February 23, 2014 (Facebook bets the house...and then China takes over)
March 2, 2014 ("I've worked in the private sector. They expect results!")
March 8, 2014 (airborne computer viruses...Pebble watch early review)
March 9, 2014 (end Daylight Saving Time...the productivity crisis)
March 15, 2014 (Facebook's attempt to replace the daily newspaper)
March 16, 2014 (Chinese companies going public in the US stock market as a sign of Chinese slowdown)
March 20, 2014 (why every smartphone should have antivirus protection)
March 23, 2014 (a minimum-wage hike won't fix everything)
March 29, 2014 (four tech takeaways from the Younkers Building fire)
March 30, 2014 (college in America needs to change -- now)
April 5, 2014 (Facebook COO cuts her stake)
April 6, 2014 (the Ukranian-Russian conflict is a struggle over Western values)
April 13, 2014 (news: a development that materially changes the status quo)
April 19, 2014 (Heartbleed update)
April 20, 2014 (if men were angels)
April 22, 2014 (Uber is coming, and the regulators don't like it; interview with PJ O'Rourke)
April 27, 2014 (why Yahoo is too cheap: the conglomerate discount)
May 10, 2014 (six things that can slow down a computer)
May 11, 2014 (a modest proposal: $250,000 for everybody)
May 17, 2014 (Pinterest, Google, Apple, Snapchat)
May 18, 2014 (the new standard should be a 14th-grade education)
June 1, 2014 (spring cleaning)
June 8, 2014 (regulations aren't consequence-free)
June 15, 2014 (bring back the ol' Reagan-style twitchy eye...Trump can't help himself...manufacturing jobs for smart people)
June 17, 2014 (huge progress in the fight against cancer...the depopulation of rural Iowa)
June 21, 2014 (Google mapping data...Amazon smartphones...IRS loses email)
June 22, 2014 (more time with books and less time with Facebook)
July 13, 2014 (a declaration of personal independence)
July 19, 2014 (end grief voyeurism)
July 20, 2014 (the most destabilizing force in the world)
July 26, 2014 (net neutrality)
July 27, 2014 (how to tell if you're working for or with a company that's running on borrowed time)
August 3, 2014 (signs you're in an organization that might actually have a future)
August 10, 2014 (the saddest sentence in the world)
August 16, 2014 (Windows 9)
August 17, 2014 (mini-bonds...blowing up the old...your risk of computerization)
August 23, 2014 (body cameras for police officers)
August 24, 2014 (the price is always wrong)
August 31, 2014 (severe weather coverage)
September 3, 2014 (how Honda could save Iowa's manufacturing base...technology hygiene)
September 7, 2014 (paying more attention to Washington with better storytelling...the trouble with a $15 minimum wage)
September 14, 2014 (call Al-Qaeda-Land what it is)
September 21, 2014 (the Russians are coming for your PBR)
September 28, 2014 (why a company shouldn't invest in its people)
October 5, 2014 (Bill Gates and the need for technocrats...the real meaning of consensus)
October 12, 2014 (the economy as we know it)
October 19, 2014 (executives need to show they can execute...practicing the right temperament for good investing)
October 21, 2014 (Apple Pay)
October 25, 2014 (the right to be forgotten...Alibaba vs. Amazon...what's good for cloud computing is good for Iowa)
October 26, 2014 (how Buzzfeed is out to ruin history...China's new development bank...Microsoft kills Nokia smartphones)
November 2, 2014 (many executives are ignorant about talent development...robots are entering yet more workplaces...the stupidity of Wallenda's tightrope stunt)
November 9, 2014 ()
November 16, 2014 ()
November 19, 2014 (a credible authority thinks that computers are out to get us)
November 23, 2014 (leaving human capital on the table)
November 30, 2014 (a university from scratch...cheap oil and its imperfections)
December 7, 2014 (own your digital identity...Hagel's parting shot)
December 12, 2014 (oil prices and the big picture for your wallet)
December 13, 2014 (Firefox breaks up with Google...Facebook takes a shot, too)
December 14, 2014 (de-commoditizing air travel is basically impossible...Uber as a company can't be worth what people are paying for it)
December 20, 2014 (FBI blames North Korea for attacking Sony)
December 21, 2014 (the economy as we know it)
December 27, 2014 (hackers crash gaming networks on Christmas...Facebook's "Year in Review" fails to please everyone)
December 28, 2014 (disposable culture and technology...red-light cameras don't really protect people)

2015

January 3, 2015 (suing Apple over iOS 8...China blocks Gmail...sharing videos)
January 4, 2015 (Kirk Ferentz's contract is a sunk cost)
January 10, 2015 (MS-DOS game emulator...satire online makes the entire world an audience...reporting the "help desk" phone scam)
January 11, 2015 (a choice that people make in every age: whether to be open, civilized, and enlightened...or not)
January 18, 2015 (self-service at Hardee's...Iowa needs more people...ethanol prices versus gas prices)
January 24, 2015 (Windows 10 is revealed)
January 25, 2015 (the Ministry of Dissent Management...we should be better at understanding risk)
January 31, 2015 (episode preempted by winter storm coverage)
February 1, 2015 (the nerds will save us -- just not the nerds you might expect)
February 7, 2015 (episode under development)
February 8, 2015 (a perfect economic system -- and what's imperfect about the others)
February 14, 2015 ()
February 15, 2015 ()
February 21, 2015 (under development)
February 22, 2015 (under development)
February 28, 2015 (under development)
March 1, 2015 (under development)
March 15, 2015 (what you study, not where...digital-first publications)
March 21, 2015 (goodbye to MSIE)
March 22, 2015 (checking our language...failure to care for sick veterans is shameful)
March 29, 2015 (the value of STEM...Germanwings plane crash...conference-call ignorance)
April 4, 2015 (ten laws of technology)
April 5, 2015 ()
April 11, 2015 (how we email...a cyberdefense branch of the military...Apple Watch)
April 12, 2015 ()
April 19, 2015 (America's best days...bullet trains are real...the juror is excused)
April 26, 2015 ()
May 2, 2015 (bad week for Twitter...Microsoft goes big...Google's new phone service)
May 3, 2015 (the latest lessons from Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger)
May 10, 2015 (under development)
May 16, 2015 (under development)
May 17, 2015 (under development)
May 23, 2015 (under development)
May 24, 2015 (under development)
May 30, 2015 (@potus on Twitter...Google Now on Tap...roads for cars without drivers)
May 31, 2015 (under development)
June 6, 2015 (under development)
June 7, 2015 (under development)
June 13, 2015 (Twitter takes on email...Netflix releases series early)
June 14, 2015 (socialism in Scandinavia...Generation X and money)
June 21, 2015 (student loan defaults)
June 27, 2015 (self-driving Uber cars...the rise and fall of emojis...Gmail enables "unsend")
June 28, 2015 (rising living standards and GDP)
July 4, 2015 (crooked apps mine your smartphone's processor...setting up feedback loops for social good)
July 5, 2015 (Greece defaults on debt payments...criminal behavior inside the TSA...text messages for positive feedback to donors)
July 6, 2015 (robogrocery for Des Moines...a refugee crisis brewing...China's stock market panic...the data of Iowa weather)
July 25, 2015 (remotely-hacked vehicles...Lindsey Graham gets in on the joke...Amazon almost erroneously turns a profit)
July 26, 2015 (the hidden costs of government overreach)
August 1, 2015 (Windows 10 is out)
August 8, 2015 (generic top-level domains...politics on Facebook...a week with Windows 10)
August 9, 2015 (under development)
August 22, 2015 (under development)
August 23, 2015 (the rise of the stupids)
August 29, 2015 (how we've all entered the editorial decision-making process)
August 30, 2015 (no reason to panic as stock prices slide)
September 12, 2015 (Apple release announcement)
September 13, 2015 (Federal Reserve interest-rate decision looming)
September 20, 2015 (under development)
September 27, 2015 (Future Scale)
October 4, 2015 (under development)
October 11, 2015 (under development)
October 18, 2015 (under development)
October 25, 2015 (under development)
November 1, 2015 (the skills gap)
November 8, 2015 (notes forthcoming)
November 14, 2015 (the attack on Paris...what to ask the Presidential contenders...huge new tablets)
November 15, 2015 (under development)
December 30, 2015 (police shootings...three cheers for Paul Ryan...remembering Cheryl Pannier)

2016

January 2, 2016 (WG: Predicting technology in 2016)
January 3, 2016 (BGS: Giving to charity...politics, markets, and compromise...checking in on the Future Scale)
January 9, 2016 (WG: Virtual reality; saving old VHS tapes; countering terrorism with technology)
January 10, 2016 (BGS: The stock market isn't the economy; Saudi Arabia and Justin Bieber; who's just not looking for work)
January 16, 2016 (WG: No more "brain games")
January 17, 2016 (BGS: The next President should be a governor)
January 23, 2016 (WG: ##)
January 24, 2016 (BGS: Having a plan at the caucuses)
January 30, 2016 (WG: The world is growing ever more complex and sophisticated -- it's no time for dummies in the Oval Office)
January 31, 2016 (BGS: The problem with "free college")
February 6, 2016 (WG: Sky-high oil taxes aren't a serious proposal)
February 7, 2016 (BGS: The Great Asset Sale continues)
February 13, 2016 (WG: Should the government have special privileges to break encryption?)
February 14, 2016 (BGS: three immutable laws of politics and property, the trouble with a $10-per-barrel oil tax)
February 20, 2016 (WG: Apple should resist encryption hacking, even if they're not angels)
February 21, 2016 (BGS: Why doesn't DC use game theory?)
February 27, 2016 (WG: Cyberspace is a wonderful adjunct to democracy, but a terrible substitute for it)
February 28, 2016 (BGS: If you think people are cynical now, wait until a Trump administration fails to deliver)
March 2, 2016 (BGS: Donald Trump's most rational choice is to quit while he's ahead)
March 5, 2016 (WG: A year in space, less free shipping from Amazon, Netflix and binge-watching)
March 6, 2016 (BGS: Is this how we should pick a President?)
March 12, 2016 (WG: Making broadband affordable for everyone)
March 13, 2016 (BGS: "I wouldn't be good at doing what you need to do to get elected")
March 19, 2016 (WG: Automatic brakes by 2022, lay off the kids on social media, GM makes a deal with Lyft)
March 20, 2016 (BGS: Manufacturing isn't dead -- but it isn't stupid, either)
March 26, 2016 (WG: What occupies our time is what fills our minds)
March 27, 2016 (BGS: A ceremonial head of state)
April 2, 2016 (WG: The real Silicon Prairie movement we need)
April 3, 2016 (BGS: If Sharp couldn't evade Foxconn, technology alone isn't enough to save a company)
April 9, 2016 (WG: The future of Yahoo; Google's product graveyard; your-name-dot-com)
April 10, 2016 (BGS: So much human potential, so many ways it's under-utilized; saving newspapers; Netflix subscription rates are rising)
April 16, 2016 (WG: QR codes come to the Blue Screen of Death)
April 17, 2016 (BGS: Expert tracks versus management tracks in the labor force)
April 23, 2016 (WG: ##)
April 24, 2016 (BGS: We've been under-paying our social-cohesion taxes)
April 30, 2016 (WG: A politician gets a lot of things right about technology -- Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska)
May 1, 2016 (BGS: Brian Dean's final show with us)
May 7, 2016 (WG: No, we are not dumber than people who lived 30 years ago)
May 8, 2016 (BGS: Korean Air's super-tall tower in LA signals that the US is the world's best place to invest)
May 14, 2016 (WG: Facebook's new live-streaming is headed toward creating huge trouble)
May 15, 2016 (BGS: TSA shortcomings create a huge deadweight cost for the economy)
May 21, 2016 (WG: Technology making jobs better for humans to do)
May 22, 2016 (BGS: Shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations)
May 28, 2016 (WG: Undersea data cables, responsibility for robotic errors)
May 29, 2016 (BGS: Public infrastructure and private infrastructure, scaling back the Executive Branch, an honorable alternative)
June 4, 2016 (WG: Microsoft password rules and a European "code of conduct" for social networks)
June 5, 2016 (BGS: Chicago revives my faith in humanity somehow)
June 11, 2016 (WG: Gawker, social media, and challenges to free speech today)
June 18, 2016 (WG: Microsoft buys LinkedIn, IBM enters weather forecasting, Uber and Airbnb face restrictions)
June 19, 2016 (BGS: ##)
June 25, 2016 (WG: Tronc and the future of news; smartwatches for cheapskates; Solar City and Tesla)
June 26, 2016 (BGS: Commentators and pundits must stop using the word "elites" ASAP)
July 2, 2016 (WG: Facebook revises its news feed -- and publishers are going to go nuts; your next accountant may be an AI; ten rules for the coming era of technology)
July 3, 2016 (BGS: "The pursuit of happiness" has a lot of deep meaning; the colonies left England in part because we wanted more free trade, not less; trial by jury today and yesterday)
July 9, 2016 (BGS: An NTSB for police-involved shootings; "free college" isn't free; Trump's sympathy for the devil)
July 16, 2016 (BGS: Polk County gets a texting-while-driving conviction; the nation's governors in Des Moines; selling Paramount Pictures to the Chinese)
July 23, 2016 (BGS: Unpredictability is usually a character flaw on the world stage; too many itchy trigger fingers; the Russian connection to the DNC email leak)
July 30, 2016 (BGS: Lots of young men who have nothing productive to do; tolerance is ambitious, but necessary; what Putin wants to gain from election interference)
August 6, 2016 (BGS: The real heroes serve on community boards; we fail ourselves when we fetishize, professionalize, and corporatize too much of our charity; libertarianism is centrism; establishing yourself online)
August 13, 2016 (BGS: Insist on seeing Johnson and Weld on the stage; Olympic swimmers from the "refugee" team)
August 15, 2016 (BGS: We need an NTSB for police-involved shootings; Google Fiber, minus the fiber; threatening to flake out on mutual aid fundamentally undermines our alliances)
August 20, 2016 (BGS: Baton Rouge flooding vs. the Floods of 1993; the teach-yourself economy; big debt and the worry for states)
August 27, 2016 (BGS: The wrong kind of protest doesn't bring attention to your point; lies about "bringing back" manufacturing jobs; unaccompanied kids in self-driving cars)
October 29, 2016 (BGS: Making peace with the probability of a Clinton election; the honorable alternative; higher minimum wages in Polk County and beyond)
November 5, 2016 (BGS: Noticing economic signals around us; vote, then pay your civic rent; police officers, innocent Des Moines kids, and drowned refugees all deserve to be mourned because all lives have equal value)
November 12, 2016 (BGS: Economic policy doesn't have a lot of altitude, airspeed, or options if things go wrong; the political parties are weak; make Social Security a top priority)
December 3, 2016 (BGS: Don't count on 4% economic growth; the dignity of the Oval Office is like a bonsai tree; Republicans should sound the alarm about Russian attacks)
December 17, 2016 (BGS: A billion Yahoo accounts were compromised -- a billion! What you should do.)

2017

January 7, 2017 (BGS: President Obama and the soggy egg roll; if Trump is tweeting, assume he could be trading, too; even digital publishers struggle to profit)
January 14, 2017 (BGS: The President-elect shouldn't be fighting with Rep. John Lewis; "tariffs" seem like something other people pay, but you're on the hook for "import taxes"; China's aircraft carrier)
January 28, 2017 (BGS: What's wrong with the immigration executive order; capitalist reading recommendations; backing out of trade deals makes us look weak)
February 4, 2017 (BGS: Are we planting elm trees or oak trees?; the President gets only one type of discretion; courts are a process, not an outcome)
February 11, 2017 (BGS: The Constitution must come first in the President's mind; we must let the nerds save us; systems beat individual leaders)
February 18, 2017 (BGS: What's local matters, because it sets us up to handle larger things like adults)
February 25, 2017 (BGS: Warren Buffett vs. Donald Trump; high-value manufacturing vs. low-end factories)
March 4, 2017 (BGS: How about we get to work building some agreement about emerging issues that haven't gotten the attention they deserve?)
March 11, 2017 (BGS: Bugs Bunny is the iconic American cartoon character; compulsory education for everyone; reforming health insurance from a blank sheet)
March 18, 2017 (BGS: Values aren't hereditary; it's perfectly fine for us to be different nations from one another, but we need to be cooperatively different; Russian FSB officers charged with hacking Yahoo)
March 25, 2017 (BGS: The rhetorical antidote to reckless populism is a tone of confident aspiration; animals have instincts, but smart people have intuition -- the culmination of habit, study, experience, and reflection; co-locating libraries with public housing)
April 1, 2017 (BGS: Noah Smith on preventing "American economic sclerosis"; regulating workplaces to death; it's still about Russia)
April 8, 2017 (BGS)
April 15, 2017 (BGS: Government should be constrained to those things it has a unique capacity to do; Emilee Richardson on "ocean worlds" beyond Earth; what's with the President threatening war on Twitter?)
April 22, 2017 (BGS: The "do-nothing Millennial" problem)
April 29, 2017 (BGS: Lower tax rates might easily feel good, but their real impact really just won't be enough to pay for itself; Simon Lester on saving NAFTA from disaster; Chinese aircraft carriers and Swedish meatballs)
May 6, 2017 (BGS: Nobody celebrates Small Business Week with ostentatious parties; Bloomberg and Twitter enter a joint venture; upskilling and the social-safety net)
May 13, 2017 (BGS: Pledge allegiance to the Constitution, never a President; Grant Campany on the Qualcomm Tricorder X-Prize; rethinking college in Iowa and beyond; I'm not a Mormon, but I want them in the Boy Scouts)
May 20, 2017 (BGS: A media guide for the skeptical conservative; Iowans don't wait for others to do the job; Tim Miller on winning on principle; Iowa needs more big cities)
May 27, 2017 (BGS: There's no excuse for a politician's physical assault on a journalist; a $15 minimum wage isn't a solution; what happened at the Manchester concert should never be normal)
June 3, 2017 (BGS: Practicing honor in little ways so we're ready when it's needed in big ones; Amazon at $1,000 a share; the good and bad of a guaranteed basic income)
June 10, 2017 (BGS: Don't let Iowa decide for Alabama or vice-versa; enemies within and enemies without; Iowa's highways aren't just for trucks)
June 17, 2017 (BGS: Look out for the imposter conservatives; the future of retail is automated, and that could be trouble for small-town Iowa; Rep. David Young on trade)
June 24, 2017 (BGS)
July 1, 2017 (BGS: Federalism and the rule of law trip up bad ideas like Federal overreach into state voter rolls because they're supposed to; Illinois in trouble -- how a neighbor's fiscal house fire threatens Iowa; in search of a big, constructive national goal)
July 8, 2017 (BGS: The "West" worth defending is rooted in openness; Sen. Ben Sasse speaks in Nevada; convincing fake videos are just around the corner)
July 15, 2017 (BGS: Until the dignity of the individual is respected everywhere, sometimes we're going to have to step in; rural broadband is a modern-day transcontinental railroad; what Helsinki and Des Moines have in common)
July 22, 2017 (BGS: Younger voters are losing faith in the First Amendment; bosses without boundaries; would your kids mock a drowning man?)
July 29, 2017 (BGS: Reince Priebus got fired because of James Madison; technology is neutral, but bad users aren't; Mitt Romney can go waterskiing anytime he wants)
August 5, 2017 (BGS: Be a proud "guardrailer"; Mark Zuckerberg isn't running for President; red hat, white hat, blue hat, black hat)
August 12, 2017 (BGS: Model railroads at the Iowa State Fair and the nostalgia for proprietor capitalism; "Dunkirk" reviewed; debt-to-GDP will soon be 100%)
August 19, 2017 (BGS: Respect isn't a finite resource; to really appreciate history is to struggle with questions of context, meaning, and choice)
September 23, 2017 (BGS: Taking a knee at the National Anthem is form, but defending the Constitution is substance)
October 7, 2017 (BGS: Don't surrender to despair after Las Vegas)
October 14, 2017 (BGS: Girls in the Boy Scouts, struggle is the price of things worth having )
October 21, 2017 (BGS: Snapchat's truly gross contribution to the hostile environment for women)
October 28, 2017 (BGS: If your idea of a good outcome is that people should be punished according to your personal animus, then you don't really believe in the rule of law; Amazon's "smart locks"; Arthur Rizer on the annual crime report)
November 4, 2017 (BGS: RTFM for your political system; only if you think that you have no reputation to protect do you deflect to the shortcomings of others when caught for wrondoing; a Tweetless President for 11 minutes)
December 2, 2017 (BGS: Bad behavior should be purged, not excused; Sears, Amazon, Meredith, and Time; tax reform is good, but not enough)
December 16, 2017 (BGS: Any civilization worthy of the name must be eager to find out why and how the system failed to protect Natalie Finn and her siblings; don't fall for the Bitcoin bubble; California's giant fires)
December 23, 2017 (BGS: Roads, bridges, and people; tariffs, taxes, and takeoffs)
December 30, 2017 (BGS: What's happening in Iran and what we should be prepared to do; slobbering devotion to any President is a bad idea; Library of Congress will stop archiving all public tweets; Gordon Fischer on year-end giving)

2018

January 6, 2018 (BGS: fighting crime by cutting regulations)
January 13, 2018 (BGS)
January 20, 2018 (BGS: a government shutdown is not a victory)
January 27, 2018 (BGS: a huge difference between being principled and being obstinate)
February 3, 2018 (BGS: the stock market isn't the economy)
February 10, 2018 (BGS: North Korea tensions)
February 17, 2018 (BGS: the Russian indictments matter)
February 24, 2018 (BGS: the generational turning point on gun violence)
March 3, 2018 (BGS: justice and humanity)
March 10, 2018 (BGS: what to do with a time machine)
March 17, 2018 (BGS: "Safe Passage" by Kori Schake)
March 24, 2018 (BGS: Facebook and a flying chair)
March 31, 2018 (BGS: "Is journalism also activism?")
April 7, 2018 (BGS: China knows which tariffs cause the most pain)
April 14, 2018 (BGS: Syrian missile strike, good and bad)
April 21, 2018 (BGS: teaching kids to deal with complexity)
April 28, 2018 (BGS: when trust breaks down, so does the economy)
May 5, 2018 (BGS: "Woodstock for Capitalists" weekend in Omaha, but capitalism is neither completely triumphant today, nor permanently triumphant forever; Scouting's change to integrate girls is a small but very real flashpoint; the Upper Midwest is fighting a low-growth situation)
May 12, 2018 (BGS: "Genius-bias" is a real problem, why police don't drive Crown Victorias anymore, professional reading lists and their limits)
May 19, 2018 (BGS: Commerce makes us nicer, the ongoing public-health emergency of violence in American schools, we need a technological solution to children being left in hot cars)
May 26, 2018 (BGS: Federal government workers have lost track of 1,500 migrant children and heads should roll for it; Dr. Megan Reiss on the North Korean nuke problem; if the President won't turn over his cell phone for a security review, he's responsible for what happens when it's hacked)
June 2, 2018 (BGS: Tariffs aren't what America really wants, ideas matter as much as ever, Iowa's energy is almost as green as our tractors)
June 9, 2018 (BGS: Iowa's institutional progress on mental health needs to be matched by personal understanding; Nicole Flatow of CityLab; pardon me, but what is legal is what the law says at the time of the act)
June 16, 2018 (BGS: Move over and slow down because every individual deserves a little leeway; can the republic survive the LOLs?)
June 23, 2018 (BGS: We will never be post-national, but don't be surprised by the return of the city-state; decriminalization may be the answer for marijuana; 47 of 99 Iowa counties have naturally-declining populations)
June 30, 2018 (BGS: The thing we ought to consider this Independence Day is just how little it was that the Founders started with; John Stineman of the US Trade Council)
July 7, 2018 (BGS: Marc Goldwein on the ever-rising Federal debt, America is neither doomed nor perfect, remembering Larry Cotlar, how socialism can work by meeting six different tests)
July 14, 2018 (BGS: The world is better with friends/zero-sum isn't the usual way, density and Des Moines, innocent children ought never to be subjected to malicious cruelty or endangerment)
July 21, 2018 (BGS: Jay Cost on "The Price of Greatness", Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison; Emily Barske on tornado recovery in Marshalltown; a better country is only the product of better people)
July 28, 2018 (BGS: A person without a code never knows when they're in truly uncharted territory; more true Federalism, please; tariffs aren't "the greatest")
August 4, 2018 (BGS: Egalitarianism defines Iowa behavior, Apple reaches a $1 trillion market capitalization, filling the void for moral leadership when the President abdicates)
August 11, 2018 (BGS: National leaders should start as local leaders, wildfires in Canada darken Iowa skies, Iowa City Public Library shares "books we hated")
August 18, 2018 (BGS: Passing of Rep. Leonard Boswell, Rep. David Young at the Iowa State Fair)
August 25, 2018 (BGS: When you become aware of criminals in your orbit, you should welcome the chance to purge them; the problem with Sen. Warren's "Accountable Capitalism"; Jim Golby on civil/military relations; Congressional candidate Cindy Axne)
September 12, 2018 (BGS: Open-minded conservatism, Ed Wilson on Hurricane Florence, Matthew Hennessey on "Zero Hour for Gen X")
September 15, 2018 (BGS: Paul Manafort flips, Mark Zuckerberg needs to know that technology isn't enough, 12% of Americans don't value democracy)
September 22, 2018 (BGS: Turning feelings into words enables us to share)
September 29, 2018 (BGS: Nationalizing every fight leads to paralysis, ignore the ransom notes in your email, memory is a complicated thing)
November 24, 2018 (BGS: Government's real job is to preserve and protect human rights, Varsity Theater to close, finding moral imagination)
December 1, 2018 (BGS: Passing of George HW Bush, the GDP sugar high is wearing off, the unpardonable pardon of Paul Manafort)
December 15, 2018 (BGS: Our little tribes are good for us, except when we let the Internet misdirect us; national unity requires common purpose; decide what you want, limit your wants as much as possible, and pay for everything in full)
December 22, 2018 (BGS)
December 29, 2018 (BGS: Small can be beautiful, saving Sears, another vote on the Local Option Sales Tax)

2019

January 5, 2019 (BGS: People who don't understand the Electoral College don't understand Federalism, Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, Iowa records first flu-related fatality of 2019)
January 19, 2019 (BGS: If we're aware of the vulnerable at our door, let's not confuse them with the bad people we might be trying to keep out; a $15-an-hour minimum wage can't be imposed without consequences; Jack Bogle, capitalist revolutionary)
January 26, 2019 (BGS: Don't assume powers when you're in charge that you don't want to hand over to your opponents when they're in charge; modernizing the draft; authenticity in office)
February 2, 2019 (BGS: Iowa twins born 18 weeks early, the floodgates open on the 2020 race, ice quakes in the night)
February 9, 2019 (BGS: Congress ought to discuss really stupid ideas once in a while, Google pulls the plug on Fiber in Louisville, maybe we need a partisan press once again)
February 16, 2019 (BGS: Believing in "consequential gravity", remote-controlled snowblowers, Emilee Richardson on the Opportunity rover)
February 23, 2019 (BGS: Philip Wallach on when branches collide, Drew Klein on the local option sales and services tax, enlarging the House)
March 2, 2019 (BGS: Was the big tax cut just a big sugar rush? Technology is only as good or as bad as the people using it. Send in the governors!)
March 9, 2019 (BGS: Our military servicemembers are professionals in service of a just and free world, not mercenaries; Facebook's leadership still doesn't get what they really are; moderation doesn't mean an absence of principles)
March 16, 2019 (BGS: Burdens are meant to be carried together; you can't pick your parents, but you can pick your heroes; land values in Iowa are slipping, and trade wars are partly to blame)
March 18, 2019 (BGS: Values have to cost something more than just lip service, Greg Edwards on the NCAA tournament, John Benson with Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management on flooding)
March 19, 2019 (BGS: Nolan Gray on "8 things your town can do to add more housing without spending a dime", Dr. Kori Schake on "America vs. the West", Arthur Brooks on "Love Your Enemies")
March 23, 2019 (BGS: The Mueller Report while we're under the veil of ignorance; John McCain wasn't perfect, but his memory deserves better than the way the President speaks about him; ideas for a new generation of research universities to revive rural America)
March 30, 2019 (BGS: We just don't have the population density to make high-speed trains work; there's yet more flooding season yet to come; Brexit, the Electoral College, and the big question nobody likes to answer, but should -- "And what happens next?")
April 6, 2019 (BGS: Property assessments are up 10%, but I'm determined not to complain; Heather Butterfield of the Iowa Donor Network; cancer isn't a punchline)
April 13, 2019 (BGS: Technology developers need to be good people, and good people need to know about technology; Erin Murphy of Lee Enterprises and James Lynch of the Cedar Rapids Gazette on Rep. Dave Loebsack's retirement; refugees aren't helpless)
April 20, 2019 (BGS: Flooding in southwestern Iowa, Paul Rosenzweig on the Mueller Report, measles is basically a weapon of mass destruction)
April 27, 2019 (BGS: Are we asking candidates the right questions? What would you do to protect your kids? Who was the best James Bond?)
May 4, 2019 (BGS: Getting better at what we do is a moral duty, property-tax hikes in Iowa, differences with China aren't a "clash of civilizations")
May 11, 2019 (BGS: We need to learn more, better, and for longer than we used to, tariffs aren't going to protect the American economy, Iowa's strangest foods)
May 18, 2019 (BGS: Don't do what you love, Dave Swenson on how small towns in Iowa are going to survive, what does the President have against Toyota?)
May 25, 2019 (BGS: Patriotism should be more than paper-thin, the new Federal courthouse is insufferably dull, SpaceX launches a swarm of satellites)
June 1, 2019 (BGS: Re-watching "The Tank Man" in light of today's China, Dollar Tree adds booze and closes stores, disagreeing decently)
June 4, 2019 (BGS: Simon Conway Show fill-in)
June 8, 2019 (BGS: Yes, Millennials could fight WWII today; capitalism is great but freedoms are even better; can Des Moines stop the new Federal courthouse?)
June 15, 2019 (BGS: Pay attention to Hong Kong as it fights back, Instagram preserves a deepfake, why Iowans don't walk to work)
June 22, 2019 (BGS: George Will on "The Conservative Sensibility", our head of state doesn't have to be the President, gender-reveal parties have gone too far)
June 29, 2019 (BGS: Against the cult of disruption, what should happen at the old YMCA site, the unviable prospects for many newspapers)
July 3, 2019 (BGS: RJ Lehmann on flood insurance in Iowa and beyond, Adam White on the Supreme Court's latest decisions, flags don't belong on shoes or any other clothing)
July 5, 2019 (BGS: It's Independence Day, not just the Fourth of July; Eric Burmeister on the shortage of affordable housing in Polk County; what if we opened the door to additional states?)
July 6, 2019 (BGS: Amanda Kolson Hurley on "Radical Suburbs", MAD Magazine is fading away, integrity isn't a part-time thing)
July 13, 2019 (BGS: Emily Barske on the anniversary of the Marshalltown tornado, choosing which Ross Perot to remember, why we can't just show up when a crisis emerges)
July 20, 2019 (BGS: Good Americans are good cosmopolitan citizens, "meth gators", the President's failure to "just say no")
July 27, 2019 (BGS: One good thing about Quentin Tarantino films, Baltimore isn't a cartoon, Robert Mueller's testimony wasn't just a television show)
August 3, 2019 (BGS: Old gas stations and cities in revival, Josh Lamel of the Re:Create Coalition offers the case for "balanced copyright", Emilee Richardson on "Live from the Moon", Laura Sarcone on the Citizen Water Academy)
August 10, 2019 (BGS: Why is the Iowa State Fair a monarchy?, the Iowa Caucuses and dangers to our elections, Jeffrey Epstein's victims deserved better)
August 17, 2019 (BGS: Maximum freedom of movement for people, money, goods, and ideas; the oldest portable computer storage you remember; the inverted yield curve for dummies)
August 24, 2019 (BGS: "Recession" is just an anagram for "Oi, screens!", buying Greenland is a stupid idea, my new favorite ride at the Fair is a street)
September 11, 2019 (BGS: 9/11 will always be with us, but its memory just achieved adulthood; Kathryn Waldron on global terrorism and threats to the homeland; Jodie Warth and Kendra Allen of the Boys and Girls Club)
September 12, 2019 (BGS: Presidential debates should be essay contests, taxing consumption makes more sense than taxing wealth, big tech wants to be regulated like a utility, Troy Price of the Iowa Democratic Party)
September 21, 2019 (BGS: ##)
September 28, 2019 (BGS: Carson King and room for error, know your tech or the wrong people will regulate it, it comes to impeachment because choices have consequences)
October 12, 2019 (BGS: Why a conservative would axe the Tomahawk Chop, Phil Collins is Not Dead Yet, using Facebook's rules against itself)
November 2, 2019 (BGS: Twitter kills political advertising, $23 trillion in debt and it's all your fault, Jon Haggerty on "The conservative case against Trump's immigration policies")
November 30, 2019 (BGS: Small Business Saturday isn't enough, good policies start at the state level, the market economy should blossom in many ways)
December 7, 2019 (BGS: Internet access isn't a human right, affordable housing in the suburbs and the city, police shootings deserve an NTSB)
December 19, 2019 (BGS/Jeff Angelo fill-in: Casey Burgat on impeachment and obstruction of Congress, passing of Hayden Fry, gift-giving off the list)
December 20, 2019 (BGS/Jeff Angelo fill-in: Home security cameras, trade deals, returning Americans to space)
December 21, 2019 (BGS: Hate crimes in Clive, Amazon as a threat to business, what impeachment means)
December 27, 2019 (BGS/Jeff Angelo fill-in: Antibiotic resistance is a major killer, social media is the new battleground, Adam White on impeachment)
December 28, 2019 (BGS: The President is tweeting about "homeless problems", but housing affordability is mainly a matter solved close to home)

2020

January 4, 2020 (BGS: It's never enough just to say that an old policy wasn't working, on Iran or otherwise)
January 11, 2020 (BGS: Let's elect a Citizen of the Year to serve as head of state; late-night drone sightings in Nebraska could be headed Iowa's way; Iowans are a fair people, so let's live up to the earned reputation)
January 18, 2020 (CI: America makes mistakes, but it's our capacity to fix them that makes us better)
February 2, 2020 (CI: Caucus Eve in Iowa; the State of the Union is a job report)
February 9, 2020 (CI: Nobody should be afraid of a "foreign" film, least of all Hollywood; China's dishonesty about coronavirus could be a game-changer)
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