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Yesterday, blue skies, and thick black clouds of doom swirled around me. Can't explain it. Deep sadness loomed up, an all-consuming feel...

Tradition.  All it means is "something that has been done by people for a long time." There's nothing magical there. We have ...

I am not a constitutional scholar. Most of us aren't. I'm not a legal eagle, most of us aren't, but these arguments against Same...

Meditation. It has taught me that there is an inside. A calm center. A still point inside my body. I get there through sitting still, and br...

Being a Right Wing Nut-job, or Wing-Nut, is a job. Paul Krugman reminds us that there is a whole ecosystem of think tanks, economists, pund...

I was inspired to write a couple blogs posts about  Alex Tabarrok's review of Joseph Heath's book.  Well now, Joseph Heath has respo...

Did you ever wonder what mp3 compression takes out of a musical track? This ubiquitous compression format is used and loved because it ma...

A beautiful well-made thing. That's how I'd describe The National's "Trouble Will Find Me." It's the followup ...

I'm Facebook "friends" with Julian Lennon . John's son. Which is funny. I mean, I know him only from his first solo record...

One of my more "New Age-like" friends tells me that we used to be free-floating spirits, kind of roaming the Universe, and then so...

I got to thinking about myself and my partner as economic entities. We buy lots of used stuff. We are not alone. Our visit on Record Store D...

It was Record Store Day yesterday. So we went to a record store. The one we chose to visit was Reckless Records in Wicker Park . It just mov...

A friend pointed me to this pretty cool, I mean, really beautiful and amazing website called "Gravity Glue."   Michael Grab is a ...

I just re-read Alex Tarabarrok's review of "Is Capitalism Making Us Stupid?"   (see previous post) . It is filled with interes...

Is Capitalism Making Us Stupid?  Joseph Heath says yes! "It isn't stupidity that causes commercialism, but rather commercialism tha...

Idealistic vs Pragmatic. I got into a discussion about Hillary Clinton's bid for the White House. I am very, very liberal. Super-liber...

Noah Baumbach . We've seen three of his movies - "The Squid and the Whale," "Frances Ha," and "Margot at the We...

I don't often root for the favorite. Usually I love an underdog. So how can I make the favorite appealing? Kind of make her an underdog ...

Dwight Garner's review of "One of Us," makes me want to read the book, but then, the subject is so horrendous, a killing ramp...

Yes, this info from Vox seems essential and important: "Filming the police takes bravery. Releasing the video takes even more." ...