You are an easily distracted bunch I know, but people, please, take your eyes off the prize. Eighty percent of my feed reader, and that doesn’t include my homepages on Google, contain posts about the Nobel Prize. I don’t think I’ve seen much else, so overwhelmed has my reader been …
Domestic Violence Awareness Month
As October takes her first breaths, I dismiss the steady source of corporate income, the pink ribbon. In it’s place, another ribbon, this one purple, and not a ribbon that Estee Lauder would be interested obtaining legal counsel over. The purple ribbon stands for domestic violence awareness, and October is …
Yanking My Chain This Week
Not even a public option here, despite from 2000 to 2007, profits at the 10 largest publicly-traded health insurance companies went up 428 percent. CEOs at these companies made an average of $11.9 million in 2007. In the past nine years, health insurance premiums have more than doubled—a rate three …
Google Women, Strangely Irritating
I was organizing my Google home pages. I have many categorized pages, from science and international development, to blogs and anthropology. I decided to add another “tab”, as they call it, for women’s issues”. I started the tab, and labeled it women. I inadvertently left their “I feel lucky” box …
Love An Artist Marry a Banker — Redux
I apologize for Paul Anka. I didn’t mean to cause undo suffering, but I believe the damage is reparable. I’m not very energetic today, I was up at 6 and at a “working group” at 8. Saturday morning “working groups” should be illegal. Either way I was home before noon …
Hiroshima Day
Today is Hiroshima Day, the 63rd anniversary of the first atomic bomb attack in history. The Doomsday Clock sits at 5 minutes to twelve. Advancing two minutes in January of 2007 a reflection of global failures to solve the problems posed by nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, the decision …
