Monday, February 3, 2014

Politics, Sex, AIDS, and Survival

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From the founding of the republic and the debates over slavery, until the passage of the Civil Right act in l964, took nearly 200 years. Wi...
Sunday, February 2, 2014

Thank You for His Service

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John Lennon who wrote that “life is what happens while we're busy making other plans.” Or as the old Yiddish proverb goes, “man plans a...
Friday, January 31, 2014

The not so sweet reality of sugar

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What are the forces that cause us to continue eating when we know we should stop? Why has the quality of food that most Americans eat, dete...
Thursday, January 30, 2014

The "poisoned chalice" of international justice

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While the United States has, since its founding, prided itself on the idea of justice for all, those principles have seldom found expressi...
Wednesday, January 29, 2014

What Big Data Tells Us About Human Culture

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We pretty well understand how evolution impacts living organisms. But is it possible that there is there a similar kind of survival of the ...

Secrets & Lies

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From the highest levels of international and governmental affairs, to the most personal and intimate relationships, secrets and lies are of...
Monday, January 27, 2014

Music, DNA and our culture of fear

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We have all had the experience of hearing a familiar and likable piece of music from a long time ago. Suddenly the music short circuits time...
Thursday, January 23, 2014

The Power of "Microresolutions"

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Everyday most of us battle our own demons. These Demons often prevent us from doing perhaps the hardest thing there is, that is initiating ...

The Loudest Voice in the Room

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Sometimes we just go on with politics as usual and then something comes along that changes everything.  In our lifetime, the political lan...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Only the paranoid and fast will survive

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SLR cameras, pagers, paper maps, travel agents, home telephones, answering machines, transistor radios; all quaint reminders of days gon...
Monday, January 20, 2014

Can we be happy thinking about happiness?

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Someone once wrote that happiness is serious business. But should happiness be a goal in and of itself, or is it simply a construct for achi...
Sunday, January 19, 2014

And now onto basketball...

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The reporting of and understanding of sports always seems to be a balancing act between the importance of teams vs. the primacy of an indivi...
Thursday, January 16, 2014

The Power and the Purpose of the Teenage Brain

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A young Johnny , played by Marlon Brando in THE WILD ONES, is asked what he’s rebelling against? He answers “what have you got?” Rebellion...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

The uniqueness of how we deal with death

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The recent controversy surrounding Bill Keller’s column about Lisa Adams, and subject of illness and dying in general, brings into bold reli...
Monday, January 13, 2014

Mistakes make us human

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To live a full life is to make mistakes. Unlike Fitzgerald’s suggestion of "personality as an unbroken series of successful gestures,...
Friday, January 10, 2014

Is torture ever justified?

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Back in the dark days of the Cold War, John le Carre published The Spy Who Came In From The Cold . It cast a light, as only fiction sometim...
Tuesday, January 7, 2014

If Twinkie's were outlawed....

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As we continue to debate health care in America, as more people come into the system, the single most significant effort is now to figure ou...
Sunday, January 5, 2014

No Pryor restraint

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Richard Pryor would become be the single most influential performer of the second half of the Twentieth Century, and certainly he was the mo...