Christopher Columbus and I have history. In the mid-1970s, while sitting over lunch in a villa overlooking Santa Margherita, I remarked that Columbus had apparently
Category: Mind
I see these arguments come from the Left and the Right, people with no advanced education and people with liberal arts or engineering degrees. The
One quarter remains.
Today at work I received an all-hands message asking for volunteers to staff a call center to contact Americans stranded in Afghanistan and provide them
In 2020, as the pandemic’s momentum gathered, my employer reduced our workforce to 50% by having us work alternating weeks. The goal of the reduction
Dopamine is evolution’s reward system for behaviors that increased the reproductive success of hunter-gatherers, long-distance hunting and gathering, eating high calories foods, and sex. Today we no longer persistence hunt, but regular exercisers enjoy the rewards of the long hunt.
Trump’s monumental ego, driven by proportional insecurity, prevents him from acknowledging that he was an incumbent president who lost to a rival he called “sleepy”.
Photos are moments in frozen moments in time. Old photos show us how transient, and eventually meaningless, life is. There comes a time when everyone
So Republicans were catatonic at the thought of paying the middle and lower classes $24,000 during this time of financial calamity for so many. They’ve
15% of Americans are certain they will not get vaccinated and 17% say that they probably will not.
I can’t believe the special stories that have been made up about our relationship to the universe at large because they seem to me to be too local, too provincial.
Th. 6/3 Been chronically tired this week since the rowing. Decided to sleep in until 5 AM which pretty much precludes working out. We. 6/2
If it existed before 1500, it’s probably not a highly processed food.
When JFK spoke the words “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.” an entire nation understood.
The cover of USA Today ran the following headline yesterday: “We are failing each other”. I have to say that I disagree. The responsibility for
There’s an unhappy photo on the Associated Press of what appears to be a CH-47 Chinook hovering over Kabul evacuating diplomats. It looks distressingly like
148.8 lb / 18.1% bf. I’m heavier than I like to be. Optimum mental health proceeds from optimum physical health.
It really is beginning to look like there is light at the end of the tunnel…..barring a really virulent COVID variant.
I prefer to call it sitting or sitting meditation, stripped of cultural nuances. Its root is zazen or zen, sitting meditation in Japanese. But there
I’ve noticed two logical arguments that are repeatedly used by Trumpists, both flawed. To America’s discredit, they seem to be gaining more general use. In
After the rape of Capitol Hill by a Trumpian mob, I wonder if this is the act of hubris that I have long instinctively expected.
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I wrote a fair amount during the George W. and Obama administrations, particularly the former’s. Incensed by the stupidity of squandering the 2000 budget surplus
Incredibly naive? Or profoundly stupid?
Update to this article. The Economist distilled my thinking on 12/5/2020: Two factors tied to the pandemic help account for Taiwan’s relative success this year.
The people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.
Local control of schools is a failure. People have lost, if they ever had, any ability to think analytically. Being able to posit an alternative
Was reading somewhere about an author’s disappointment that something didn’t happen at the very end of 2020 to bring more closure. The sentiment is entirely silly.
I don’t believe in the supernatural. I do believe in the power of symbols.
Git her done.
We drove through Denali National Park.
I’ve written in the past that Zen was the religion of the samurai and Stoicism was the philosophy of the centurion. As with most generalizations,
Facebook is, of course, the most highly integrated. It exists primarily as an advertising platform but also allows its company to harvest extensive data about
Someone stopped by for breakfast.
Trump’s voter fraud lawsuits have all failed. This underscores one fundamental fact about Trump. While his misinformation and lies can sway the gullible and the
I feel for those who struggle, whose numbers have grown so much in 2020.
The NYT is reporting that while the deaths attributable to corona virus is 303,963, the death rate has been higher than they would be in