Psychologist Jonathan Haidt has written an excellent multidisciplinary work on the meaning of life, entitled The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2006). I am presently reading Haidt's book for the second time, paragraph by paragraph. This is clearly one of the books I would take to a…
Do you think that you're getting a neutral perspective of the Israeli occupation of Gaza when you rely on the U.S. media? Think again. Ask yourself this simple question: Where can you get a carefully-documented viewpoint that you would have if you were a resident of Gaza? The Media Education…
I watched a good portion of Bush's last press conference and couldn't help thinking it was an audition for the part of a recovering junkie recently fallen off the wagon. It wasn't the words so much as the body language and facial expressions that held my attention. Surreal? Hasn't the…
Last month I took a trip to Portland, OR. I fell in love with the city, the people and the energy. I met some cool people. I saw a great deal of collaboration and people actively engaged in the community around them. One of the groups was a group of…
This latest example of well-armed humans being cruel to relatively helpless humans has embarrassed Israel, as it should. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJaPZLNLBu8[/youtube] Meanwhile, there are more than 100,000 U.S. troops in Iraq, doing who-knows-what because the U.S. media is not covering Iraq anymore. The official word is that our soldiers are still out…