Archive for February, 2008
OPW: Matthieu Ricard on Busyness
I’ve talked about Matthieu Ricard’s excellent Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill twice before. This bit is about how we’re all so afraid to slow down.
“Living it up” has become the leitmotif of modern man — a compulsive hyperactivity without any downtimes, no gap of unscheduled time, lest we end up alone with ourselves. […]
Dispatches: The YZ Prize for Peace
Our roving reporter, Steve Finch, has an interesting story today that he asked us to file under “that’s something that would really benefit humanity.”
SANTA MONICA, CA — The YZ Prize Foundation — of no relation to the X Prize Foundation — announced a new reward today which they’ve called simply the Peace YZ Prize. Like all such prizes, the foundation is […]
About Super Tuesday
Josh Thompson
Let’s recap: A lot of people in a lot of states participated in presidential nominating contests yesterday. Though no one expected Huckabee to win anything, he did. And no one expected that McCain would be derailed; he was not. No one expected that the Democratic race would have a decisive conclusion; it does not. […]
Tidbits
From the “In Case of Emergency, Break Glass” box:
Sometimes you try to write something and come up completely empty. Having had had a number of interesting, strange, and outright unusable ideas, you’ve found nothing that could become a coherent set of sentences that seemed to say anything valuable.
So instead, readers will have to accept some […]
Review: Blame it on Fidel
Foreign films have a reputation for being boring. So, a random line from this one:
Mickey Mouse is a fascist! I said don’t read it!
If that’s doesn’t make you sit up and pay attention, nothing will. The line also succinctly explains the chief struggle in Blame it on Fidel (La Faute à Fidel).
Young Anna is a […]
