There’s a completely fascinating analysis of the American political scene, and the 2008 race, at the Atlantic Monthly. Interestingly enough, unlike much of their content, it’s available to nonsubscribers– are they backing a particular candidate? Regardless, the author, senior editor Andrew Sullivan, makes a point which I, as a barely-Boomer, found to be a stunning [...]
Posts Tagged ‘culture’
Fascinating analysis: American politics, Obama, and Vietnam
Posted in 2008, advice, culture, election, politics, tagged 2008, advice, culture, election, politics on November 8, 2007 | 1 Comment »
that there RAT movie
Posted in critters, culture, squick, tagged critters, culture, squick on July 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Some friends were praising it highly online, the new Disney/Pixar movie ‘Ratatouille’. I saw an excerpt on TiVo, and discovered that I am turning into a Grown-Up. Clearly I need to go off and do Irresponsible Things. All I could think was: RAT. There’s a RAT in the KITCHEN. It’s in the PANS! It’s RUNNING [...]
so very not work-safe…
Posted in culture, humor, tagged culture, humor, khraigslist on June 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…unless hysterical laughter is ok at your work. No, seriously. This is insanely great. Khraigslist ‘missed connections’. Freakin’ *brilliant*. And oh, oh, oh, so terribly, horribly, hysterically realistic. Apologies for not citing whomever on my flist who posted this, I’d closed all the LJ tabs before reading the link.
"Science" encompasses many things…
Posted in critters, culture, philosophy, rant, tagged critters, culture, philosophy, rant on June 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
…including practices that will be thought of as sheerest quackery 50 years from now, as were some of today’s practices 50 years ago. I’m not interested in outlawing science, not even remotely. I AM interested in calling attention to the fact that a lot of *really bad science* seems to insist on being afforded the [...]
Addendum: on dogs, and on animal research
Posted in activism, critters, culture, philosophy, rant, sustainability, tagged activism, critters, culture, philosophy, rant, sustainability on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Most people grow up so far out of touch with animals that they probably shouldn’t even be doing animal research. Researchers ‘surprised’ by dogs’ abilities? Did any of them grow up with a family dog? Growing up with one or more dogs, two or more cats, and various numbers of goats, chickens, and occasionally pigs, [...]
animals, yes, they ARE smart, aware, feeling, etc
Posted in activism, critters, culture, rant, sustainability, tagged activism, critters, culture, rant, sustainability on June 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
posted this great Washington Post article about cognitive reasoning and inference in dogs, who behaved similarly to 14-month-old children in an inference test. And I just have to RANT, seeing the ‘wow, who knew?’ tone of this article (not at him, at the world in general). I grew up with animals. They really ARE there– [...]
Need for a New Culture
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged culture, read-this, recommendations, sociopolitics, sustainability on January 15, 2001 | Leave a Comment »
Once again, Phil Agre comes out and says, far more eloquently than I could, some things I’ve been thinking lately and takes them a few steps further: The need for a new culture. –Phil Agre, excerpted from RRE News The world is being swept by new materials, including computational devices that can be embedded into [...]
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