By Scott Shields – Contributing Writer – Capitol Times Media The Signature That Is Absence There is a difference between anonymity imposed by history (the lost names of ancient artisans) and anonymity chosen by design (Nakamoto's deliberate withdrawal). But both share a recognition that the relationship between creator and creation can become parasitic if the creator lingers too long. The ego attaches itself to the work like barnacles to a hull, slowing it, weighting it, redi

By Scott Shields – Contributing Writer – Capitol Times Media There is a peculiar humility in the world's greatest works, a silence where a signature ought to be. Walk into the Ajanta caves in Maharashtra, India, and you'll find murals painted between the 2nd century BCE and the 5th century CE that rival anything produced during the Italian Renaissance. Pigments ground from lapis lazuli, figures rendered with anatomical precision and spiritual tenderness, entire walls pulsing

By Mike Cargile California is the largest state in the union, the world's fourth-largest economy, first in the nation in agriculture, technology, energy, and entertainment, and home to more people than any other state. Now imagine an adversarial foreign power controlling that state's government, its universities, its economic institutions, and its elected class. You don't have to imagine it. The documented record, court cases, guilty pleas, congressional testimony, and Califo