Scott Robinson
"Have more than one idea": Pluralist societies vs. Ideological regimes
A group of high school kids are visiting the West Wing when a precautionary lockdown occurs, due to a terrorism alert. The staff are used...
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Scott Robinson
- Jul 20
- 15 min
Time Travelin' Trek
Nitpicking the science – and, while we’re at it, the inconsistencies – of the sci-fi that we love is the fanboy’s great joy. And because...
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Scott Robinson
- May 18
- 4 min
The Root Cause Analysis of All Evil
Money is the root of all evil, we are told, and that case is not hard to make. Almost any crime one person commits against another is...
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Scott Robinson
- May 18
- 4 min
Mitch McConnell's America
Much has been made of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell’s flip-floppy attitude toward Supreme Justice confirmations. When a Democrat...
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Scott Robinson
- May 11
- 2 min
The Paleo-Oligarchs
To add perspective to inequality as we experience it in the modern world, it might be useful to consider what our paleolithic ancestors...
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Scott Robinson
- May 11
- 3 min
Chairs
There has never been a time in the history of human civilization when the wealthy did not rule. Oligarchy – rule of the people by the...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 20
- 3 min
A White Piano
The Kentucky Kernel was a powerful, even transformative experience for me. Two years as a staffer there set my course in life. Though I...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Pour Some Sugar on Steve
Def Leppard. The boys from Sheffield had experienced their meteoric rise during the years I was a young parent and still in the church –...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Big Generator (1987)
90125 had revived Yes from cold, grim death – not only keeping them alive, but supercharging with more energy and spectrum than they’d...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 19
- 2 min
Hunting High and Low (1985)
This one, like Nik Kershaw and Mr. Mister, might baffle and even disappoint many of my musician friends. But in 1986, I was living alone...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 19
- 2 min
My Car Seat Rocker
In 1982, I became a daddy with the birth of my son Steve. And a new phase of musical life began. I might quibble over my parents’...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 18
- 2 min
Cereal Box Singles (1970)
Throughout the Sixties, I was growing up in Garden Springs, a suburb of west Lexington, Kentucky – in a church-music-only home. During...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 15
- 5 min
Band of Brothers
Often have we put forth the premise that human beings are biologically predisposed to live in community – that we are social beings,...
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Scott Robinson
- Apr 13
- 10 min
Famous Fake Bands
Every now and then, you’ll hear a magnificent song you’ve never heard before – on the radio, maybe, or in a friend’s car – and be blown...
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Scott Robinson
- Mar 16
- 27 min
Medallion
I As far back as his memory went, Arlan Mynx had longed to rule the world. In grade school, this longing manifested in a dramatic...
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Scott Robinson
- Mar 14
- 12 min
Asimov's Manifesto: Prescience for the Human in the Machine
Among the many bequests of Isaac Asimov to the human conversation was his take on the robot – its nature and role. Emerging in science...
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Scott Robinson
- Mar 14
- 6 min
Hearts and Minds: The End of the Witness
When I was young, growing up in a Fundamentalist/Evangelical household, I was very explicitly indoctrinated into the faith from birth....
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Scott Robinson
- Mar 10
- 23 min
Skeleton 17
I The Dyje River rivaled the sky for blue as the helicopter swept out over an open field a mile or so east of Dolní Vĕstonice. Its...
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Scott Robinson
- Feb 24
- 7 min
Things Hoped For, Things Not Seen
I’m originally from Kentucky, though these days I live just across the river in Indiana, and I am still sufficiently bound to the...
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Scott Robinson
- Feb 23
- 2 min
Fear of Quicksand
Through many of my childhood years, a deep dread lurked in the back of my brain, prompted by Saturday afternoon movies and an assortment...
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