In the Washington Post, Bob Woodward has written an excellent summary of the ten lessons we have hopefully learned from the Bush Presidency. The article is titled “10 Take Aways From the Bush Years.” Here are the titles to these ten lessons, which Woodward carefully illustrates throughout his article: 1.…
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…
Matt Tabbi of Rolling Stone is among the most flamboyant and sharp-edged writers out there. In the January 22, 2009 edition of Rolling Stone, Tabbi fantasized about a farewell interview in which George W. Bush actually apologizes. It was at the very end this article that Tabbi unleashed this verbal…
How does pseudo-science "beat" science? I'm still thinking this through, but here is where I am at the moment. Here are three steps often employed by pseudo-scientists: Step I: Claim that honest work done by careful scientists is not credible without having any appreciation of the intense and meticulous work…
Upbeat roundtable by Meet the Press, featuring comedian/author Bill Cosby, Congresswoman Maxine Watters, Adrian Fenty (Mayor of Washington D.C.) and Alvin F. Poussaint. Cosby and Poussaint have co-authored a book entitled Come On, People: on the Path from Victims to Victors (2007). The main theme of this roundtable is what…