Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
Andrew Hinton writes a thoughtful and passionate post about George Bush’s first veto that will prevent the use of frozen embryos for stem cell research. In his post, Andrew questions where life starts, where life ends, and who decides it. He also touches on the issue that I find the hardest to digest about...
It’s not yet established with certainty whether Mr. Bush likes black people or not, but we know for sure that in the past he has declined several invitations to speak at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 2004, he defined his relationship with the NAACP as “basically nonexistent.” But...
I love when the underdog wins. It upsets the boring course of reality and makes the future so much more interesting. Surprise is an exciting feeling. Ghana played a true team game and the Czechs never quite recovered from the surprise of the first goal. What can I say, I love soccer. On the...
In Italy, professional sports are played once a week, with few exceptions. Among the sports, soccer is The Game. On Sundays, people watch the game. The rest of the week they talk about the game, argue about the game, read about the game, fantasize about the game, and plan for the next one. Each...
Yesterday Husband and I went to the Whitney Museum in NYC. In this period the Whitney is having the 2006 Biennial, which is titled Day for Night in homage to François Truffaut’s movie La Nuit américaine. Some of the pieces were outrageous (a large virginal white canvas with piece of dirty chewing gum splattered...
(Also titled: My all too real existential angst as eruditely expressed by Milan Kundera) The Unbearable Lightness of Being is obsessing me lately. I wonder why: I had not read or thought about this book in years. Yesterday, I took the English copy we own from the bookshelf and started reading it. [My Italian...
