Monday, August 30, 2010

August 28, 1963: A dream awakened

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Even though Glen Beck and Sarah Palin tried to soil it, this past weekend marked the forty-seventh anniversary of the March on Washington. ...
Thursday, August 26, 2010

The only thing we have to fear......

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When FDR said that "the only thing we have to fear, is fear itself," he may have been on to something more than just calming a fri...
Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Washington Rules and the end of the American Century

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For over 60 years we have believed in the notion of The American Century. That idea has, over the years, morphed to represent a framework a...
Monday, August 23, 2010

Ethical Collapse at Hewlett-Packard

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If our recent financial meltdown tells us anything, it is that corporate governance matters. Sure there are powerful economic forces always...
Thursday, August 19, 2010

California Crackup

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The State of California was once a model of governance, creativity and infrastructure. In Joan Didion's words, it was a place where ...
Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Pat Tillman's real story

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Pat Tillman's life was never conventional. That unconventional nature led him to become an NFL star and then to be so moved by the event...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Why monogamy doesn't work. The prehistoric origins of modern sexuality

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Suppose everything we've been told about sexual relationships and monogamy was wrong? What if the whole idea of the nuclear family narr...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Defeat and fantasies of betrayal

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As the war in Afghanistan goes badly, as evidenced by the recent WikiLeaks documents, no doubt that in a year or so we will be looking for s...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

Marriage equality does work!

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According to a recent poll, the majority of Americans now favor marriage equality. Yesterdays decision by Judge Vaughn Walker, while far fr...
Thursday, July 29, 2010

Friend or Foe?

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Facebook has become ubiquitous! It has just acquired its 500 millionth member, which represents about twenty-five percent of people, around...
Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The War Logs

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Earlier this week we saw the release of some 92,000 reports that make up a six year archive of classified military documents.  These documen...
Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Once bitten

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Imagine, a disease we've known how to prevent and cure for over a century that still infects five-hundred million people every year, kil...
Monday, July 26, 2010

Morning Miracle

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When we talk about newspapers today as entities, as brands, as institutions that need to change to reflect new economic and technological re...
Monday, July 19, 2010

The Last Gasp

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Beyond the debate about capital punishment, is the reality of the various methods used. From 1924 through 1999, for over 75 years, the gas ...

She is not one of us!

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The state of Arizona recently passed a law banning human/animal hybrids. This debate, like so much about the discussion of genetics today go...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Is altruism really possible?

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How do we reconcile the fundamental idea of evolution, survival of the fittest, with the idea of altruism? We know that throughout nature, ...
Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Welcome to Utopia?

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For those of us who grew up in and around big cities, the idea of small town America is often alien and perplexing. Yet, if we scratch bene...
Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Steinbrenner

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George Steinbrenner redefined he fundamental relationship between an owner and his team. He was perhaps the best know owner in modern sport...

Ayelet Waldman's RED HOOK ROAD

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Five years ago Ayelet Waldman ignited a controversy when she wrote in an essay that she loved her husband more then her children. In her su...