progressive politics and regressive entertainment. like peanut and butter.
January 17, 2012 1 Comment
Another photo from my walk in the Palo Alto Baylands. And another apology for me not knowing photography! I mean, I do realize that much of the photo is in darkness, but I kind of enjoy the accidental results, with the sun, reflection, and shadows obscuring what is a view of Palo Alto beneath a Farmers Insurance blimp.
January 17, 2012 Leave a comment
It’s another of those subjects that can get one accused of not being sufficiently patriotic…questioning the tactics of your one’s own government. Whenever I think of how criticism of terrorism is only allowed to be directed outward, it’s like I’m back to being a child feeling angry at an unjust world. What good are values if they only start past the border?
January 17, 2012 Leave a comment
In which I reveal the answers behind the Huffington Post’s recent question-filled headlines.
January 17, 2012 4 Comments
“I certainly think she references me a lot in her work. And sometimes I think it’s amusing and flattering and well done,” she said.
Madonna said sometimes Gaga’s work also appears to be a “statement about taking something that was in the Zeitgeist, you know, 20 years ago and turning it inside out and reinterpreting it.”
January 17, 2012 2 Comments
When I first visited the Google campus back in 2003 in order to visit friends who worked there — well, I’ll admit it, like everyone else I visited in order to partake of the free food. It was a terrific atmosphere, full of vim and vigor, and very very open. I was particularly struck by the omnipresent coolers full of Naked juice. It seemed like an enterprising Googler could take as much of these free offerings as desired, and perhaps start as second business as a Naked juice retailer.
