I was tempted to not watch Stephen Colbert interview children’s book author Maurice Sendak, thinking it would not be interesting. I was wrong. Sendak turns out to be a funny and feisty guy, one of the few who can match wits with Colbert.
(To get hints on how to view clips on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report outside the US, please see this earlier post.)
Part 1 was shown on January 24, 2012.
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Part 2 was shown on January 25, 2012.
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There is a downside to following politics too closely in that it can cause you to misjudge the impact of a news story on the general public. Take the case of Mitt Romney’s taxes. It has been known for a long time amongst the cognoscenti that not only was he wealthy but that his income came from investments and [Read more…]
In the article titled Buddhism Without the Hocus-Pocus in the The Chronicle of Higher Education (January 13, 2012, page B4, unfortunately behind a subscription wall) by Owen Flanagan, a professor of philosophy at Duke University, that I wrote about yesterday, the author quotes the Dalai Lama as saying that if [Read more…]
I almost forgot to mark the occasion of the seventh anniversary of this blog. Well, technically not at this particular location which I moved to on January 9th of this year. But I started blogging on January 26, 2005 and never thought I’d last this long.
So onward and upward to year #8!
The candidate for US Senate from Massachusetts seems to have passion and a willingness to take on the big financial interests that are working against the poor and the middle class. While the US Senate has become a largely ineffective body, she may still be able to use it as a platform to articulate a point of view that is currently with little voice in Congress.
Of course, I have been disillusioned before by many candidates who [Read more…]