The following small list of ideas in presented in the hope that someday, somehow, enough people will read them that they will "emerge" in the sea of public consciousness and transform themselves into realities. Each idea is presented together with a brief discussion in which the reasoning underlying the idea is laid out. Feel free to forward these proposals or a URI to this page to your favorite politicians.
Note well, this is a rather disjoint collection. The ideas are not necessarily related. Each idea is accompanied by a short block of text explaining why the idea is (in my opinion) worth trying and might improve life if it were.
Note well that some of the ideas here have been adopted, in ways great or small, since this work was begun back in 2003. In particular, the national do-not-call list has finally made the dinner hour a time of peace again for those of us that leapt onto it as soon as we reasonably could. If only we could accomplish something similar for SPAM, and for the mountains of junk mail in our mailboxes.
Politicians, in particular, should feel free to steal these ideas and present them as their own brilliant concepts, if that is the only way they are willing to make use of them. Play right on through, Please!
As you'll see, not all of these ideas originate strictly within me anyway (although quite a few do and likely will in the future) and by the time even the most modest of them is implemented even discussion and development of the ideas will have occurred that even the ones that are mine alone will be mine alone no longer.
If I ever record enough ideas to make it worthwhile I may organize the ideas into broad categories, but in the meantime the list is presented in no particular order. Enjoy.