Eating in a Strange Place
2015-05-31 – My son Cal left yesterday for a summer internship at Axelle Editions in New York. This will be a great opportunity for him as a young artist to learn […]
Monthly Archives: May 2015
I Keep Falling Asleep and Waking Up
2015-05-28 – I keep falling asleep and waking up. Yeah, I know you do that too, but I’m not talking about the normal day-night cycle. I’m talking about cycles that […]
The Rhythm of Prayer
2015-05-26 – My friend Natalie celebrated her bat mitzvah this week. I wasn’t there but I read her reflection on a prayer I once said: Elohai Nitzor. This is a […]
And the Cockroach Shall Inherit
2015-05-24 – Those who think that a god created the world for human beings have a lot of explaining to do. I’m particularly thinking of the millennia of suffering this […]
The Turing Test
2015-05-21 – We all know about the Turing Test, don’t we? If you are not sure, let me tell you what it is. It is a test of a machine’s […]
Andy’s Obituary Got 171 Likes.
2015-05-19 – Andy’s obituary got 171 likes. Okay, I don’t really know anyone named Andy who recently died. But you know what I mean. You put a death notice on […]
If Politicians Are For We the People . . .
2015-05-17 – We’re not as dumb as we look! By “we,” I mean “We, the People.” Politicians, left and right, love to talk about We the People, from libertarians to […]
Science Can End Racism
2015-05-14 – Back in the Sixties I read a book called Black Like Me by a journalist by the name of John Howard Griffin. The book recounted the white author’s […]
The Voice(s) of a People?
2015-05-12 – I haven’t said much in this blog about Israel. Although I strongly believe in the right of Jews to a nation among the nations of the world, I’m […]
An Eye for an Eye, the Joint for a Joint?
2015-05-10 – Sometime during the last year or so, conservatives and liberals woke up to the fact that the United States has altogether too many people in prison. Conservatives regard […]
