Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Macrobiotic Delicious-ness

Back to basics, the macrobiotic way with these delicious sounding recipes.

And more here.

Monday, February 08, 2010

Step ins

Explore this word and its meaning.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Mengele in print, for sale

It appears that Dr. Josef Mengele kept a diary, and that it is now up for sale.

Tuesday, February 02, 2010

Sundance Film Recs

Salon writer, Andrew O'Hehir, talks Sundance films here.

Monday, February 01, 2010

LBGT Film Festival

Here are so good film references.

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Cooking with Bubbe

What a wonderful program, Cooking with Bubbe, discovered at the Globe.

Friday, January 29, 2010

Anne Frank Banned in VA School

Incredible, rapid decision, with one complaint, to remove the biography from class-room study.

Reversed decision.

Captive Phrases

professor Lawrence Lessig. But, he adds, "There's a difference between what you can legally do, what you can technically do, and what you ought to do.

so much more than her marital prospects.

 empower communities, not corporations.

When the bullying goes beyond meanness, criminal accountability is the ultimate consequence

While correlation is not necessarily causation

 I'm one of the actors, not one of the observers."

the sleeping souls of your ancestors are calling out to you

pithy aperçus


we saved her from the river and she ended up in the sea.

impulse for renewal

his life was a series of lapses."

reductio ad absurdum

an epic of self-delusion

progress-resistant cultural influences

ambivalence, doubt and confusion are essential to forming dynamic new hybrid selves

hidden brain

anger is born of impotence, a frustration that can melt away just by doing something about it.

the inchoate chafing at any manifestation of authority