Ovation Cable TV had a special today on Chuck Close, an American artist/painter whose work is extraordinary. Take a look on google images and in this website. No less extraordinary is his background and the challenges he overcame along his life, never letting setbacks keep him down, always surmounting tragedies to come out stronger. This [...]
It is striking how often we resort to recasting our fallen leaders into molds of perfected humanity. No matter their flaws, once assassinated, their death transforms them to immortal epic heroes. In re-casting our fallen, we humans do not just pay tribute to their courage and compensate them for their lost years. We also re-write [...]
Benjamin Franklin was the first recorded person to call himself "an extreme moderate." He was thus a true predecessor to the OneVoice Movement, in highlighting the imperative of action and determination from mainstream citizenry.
Peter Samuelson is one of those rare living angels who rove the earth, who never forget to treat every human being with respect, who always try to help make others better beings and better off, and daily, constantly innovating to fight suffering. He inspired a lot of great quotes worthy of sharing. Peter’s "profession" is [...]
My friend Andy Komaroff shared this beautiful poem tonight at the rehearsal dinner for my wedding: If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait [...]
Cosmologist Martin Rees does not think that modern civilization will make it past this century. Scientific and technological progress carry with them the seeds of human destruction, whether through the harm we cause to the environment, or straight out nuclear or biological destruction. So ironically, one of the core limitations to connecting with intelligent life [...]
The show RED EYE which airs really late night on FOX News is actually wickedly funny and sometimes incisively so. Try to watch the clip from their Feb 26 discussion about the Hamas Bunny. It is the right’s version of the Daily Show with Jon Stewart and the Colbert Report, among my all-time favorites, only [...]
I often worry about how the recent technological changes will affect society. I particularly am concerned about the impacts of constant-feedback-technology (blackberry, cell, email, voicemail, sms, i.m, – you need input, input, input – like the robot in the movie Short Circuit). Will attention-span-disorder (like I have) become a regular feature of society? Will today’s [...]
A very interesting article from Reuel Marc Gerecht on Iraq, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda and what I call "pseudo-Islamic terrorists" (militant extremist assassins who usurp and tarnish a noble religion to advance their absolutist aims) appears in the Washington Post. He is either extraordinarily well informed, and providing some real hope, or just engaging in wishful [...]
Below is a funny article about a man that set out to discover where all the ingredients in a twinkie came from…and the greater issue about all the artificial ingredients in our food… I never cease to be amazed how our mass culture has created a permissiveness to eat and manufacture products whose ingredients you [...]