If this is the future then I am more hopeful for the collapse of our complex society and the depletion of energy resources. The technology is not standing still Intracavernosal injection therapy is a well…
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Neither a Borrower nor a Lender Be: Arrietty and Disney Humans by Proxy
Our family went to the latest Studio Ghibli release this past weekend, The Secret World of Arrietty. This is not directed by Hayao Miyazaki but he is credited with the screenplay, adapting this from the…
Calling the Police or Pointing the Gun
Or, If your white and wealthy, do both. Then call your lawyer. Political Science Prof Corey Robin, author of The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, on C-SPAN’s After Words with S.E. Cupp….
Autism: The Next “Specialty” Credential?
Or, The Uses of Autism For your juxtaposing critical consideration–a business opportunity or a neurological disorder…or something yet known. From Shaky Ground by Adam Phillips in the London Review of Books (below in normal text)…
Bury These Nostaligias
Is there a better way to demonstrate the absolute vacuity of America and its “gifts” to the world than the Academy Awards? This morning I read a critique of the telecast on Salon by their…
Desertification, or Living Nowhere
Here are things I cannot change that make me angry and perhaps you might share a similar list: War; anything that is war dressed up under other terms; fraud; exclusionary self-interest; that same interest commended…
If Not Equality, then Broad’s Advantage
Eli Broad, Billionaire Gift Giver (Strings Attached) of the Broad Foundation, made a clear statement of what schools are for in 2008: Those of us who come from the world of business understand what is…
Progress, Innovation and Improvement: Useful Ideas
Want to bait a hook intended for humans? Use the worm that turns on “improvement.” This worm will wriggle any old way you choose. Want to assess your life…what improvements have made you a better…
A Society Which Ought Not To Exist
“Society ought not to exist, if not for the benefit of the whole. It is and must be against the law of nature, if it exist for the benefit of the few and for the…