Sunday, August 30, 2009

The first casualty of war

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If truth really is the first casualty of war, how do we know if any war is truly worth the cost in lives and treasure? Be it by lies, propag...

New must reads

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Some new "must reads" 1) The global implications of the L'affaire Gates 2) The ever precient Jeff Jarvis on media distribution...
Friday, August 28, 2009

Empire of Illusion

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When he ran for President in 2004, John Edwards talked of "two Americas."  Today the gap between those two Americas is even wider....
Thursday, August 27, 2009

The poetry of farming

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Called by The New Times "a poet of farming," David Mas Masumoto , the author of  Wisdom of the Last Farmer: Harvesting Legacies f...
Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Today's must reads

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In news today, other than the death of Ted Kennedy, here are some more obscure, but important must reads. Craigslist may have killed off new...

Ted Kennedy

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For those of us that grew up in the 60’s, the Kennedy's will always be a part of our consciousness. Whether you were a Republican or a ...
Monday, August 24, 2009

Why we do what we do?

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We spend most of our waking lives at work.  And yet we rarely ask ourselves how we got there or what our occupations mean to us.   Alain De ...

Catch a falling star

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Shooting stars have captivated us for centuries.  They continue to do so, as meteorite hunters are now hot on there trail.   Through millenn...
Sunday, August 23, 2009

Monday 8/24 Daily Reads

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Here are some more must reads. Not all from today, as we're still catching up. Jonah Lehrer explains the feedback look of stress and wh...

Daily must reads

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In addition to continuing to post my interviews, today I begin a new feature on this site. During the course of each day, both in preparati...
Saturday, August 22, 2009

The Artifice of Art

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How is the value of art determined? Is the value of art driven by intrinsic values, or artificially inflated by dealers, museums and huckst...
Wednesday, August 19, 2009

The Philosophical Baby

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When George Bernard Shaw said that "some men see things as they are and ask why, others dream things that have never been and ask why n...
Monday, August 17, 2009

Paul Theroux's Ghost Train

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In the early 1970s, a young author named Paul Theroux embarked on an adventurous voyage. After rambling across much of Asia and Russia via l...
Friday, August 14, 2009

Robin Cook talks about health care

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Dr. Robin Cook , with his first book "Coma" gave birth to the genre of "medical thriller." Since then, he has written t...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

How to get out of GITMO

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President Obama promised that he would close the US Detention Center at Guantanamo. The reality of the legal and physical disposition of th...

Making it Legal

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As the same-sex marriage and domestic partnership landscape changes almost daily, it has ushered in a whole new complex area of the law. Th...
Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Can we really rethink civilization

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Al Gore, in An Inconvenient Truth , warned us of a "planetary emergency" as a worst case scenario. According to Dianne Dumanoski...
Saturday, August 8, 2009

The French Helath Care Model - Why it Matters

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The World Health Organization has named the French health care system the best in the world. (The U.S. ranked 37th). It's physician-rich...
Friday, August 7, 2009

Julia Child - November, 2001

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With the opening, this weekend, of the movie Julie & Julia , attention turns to the late Julia Child and her contribution to food, cooki...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

St. Helena...again & again

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As I've said once before, I know this blog is usually reserved for loftier discussions, but the St. Helena, CA. School Board recall is o...