Big day Sunday for all you pagans in New York, DC, LA and Dublin.
Sunday the 21st is the winter solstice. It has big meanings in science, spirituality, religions and world history and culture. Many scholars […]
Month: December 2014
One remarkable upside–yes, upside–of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report.
Last night North Korea blasted the United States over the Senate Select Intelligence Committee’s report released last week on CIA interrogation practices–now […]
Is Sen. Elizabeth Warren fun or what?
Not sure I would vote for her for anything. But I do like her in the conversation. She scares the smug and […]
Is Sen. Elizabeth Warren fun or what?
Not sure I would vote for her for anything. But I do like her in the conversation.
Suggestion: Read Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock over the holiday to see what he got right.
Which was quite bit. Toffler’s Future Shock (Random House 1970) was published nearly 45 years ago and was, in hype terms, the […]
Pantheon: Happy Birthday, Ms. Remick.
Actress Lee Remick died of liver and kidney cancer in 1991 at the age of 55. If she were alive today, she […]
113th Congress, 2nd Session: A Passion for Excellence
Attaboy, Congress. The peoples’ chamber of the most elite legislative body the world has known squeaked one by to save us all. […]
Dan Harris: What’s your Vietnam business strategy?
Dan Harris at China Law Blog asks What’s Your Vietnam Strategy? He expands on an earlier article (May 19) he penned this […]
Gruesome, ineffective and kept from the public, says Senate summary report on CIA interrogation program.
Well, see my post title above. This is a full Senate committee report I’ll read when published, and it may be the […]