Art is political. It’s pretty much gospel in our postmodern world. So when Rachel and I saw Million Dollar Baby last
month, she suspected there’d be controversy over the ending, in
which ( ! ! spoilers ahead ! ! ) Clint Eastwood’s character Frankie assists Hillary Swank’s character Maggie to commit suicide.
Maureen Dowd summarizes the controversy (see [...]
Biking to work this morning I got to cruise down part of the Patriots’
parade route (down Boylston Street). Boy were there a lot of cops out
today! I didn’t even know we had that many police. What a good day to
be a criminal.
Later on I was walking to a meeting, and parade detritus was still all
about. [...]
William Shipman’s Op-Ed piece in today’s Globe, “No Halfway Measures,”
goes only halfway in comparing plans for Social Security reform. He
lampoons
the idea of investing Social Security in government bonds, or even
government-managed funds, as handing out $1 million
bonds to everyone, then taxing each for $1 million. But Shipman fails
to admit that President Bush’s plan plays the same [...]
Bush’s Social Security rhetoric is squarely pitched at my
generation, prophesying 2042, when I will be 67, as the doomsday
year when Social Security will finally go bust. And his quasi-privitization solution has some
appealing features, most of all the likelihood of doing more with less. But the merits of the plan, like most of Bush’s economic
initiatives, favor [...]
I was delighted to discover today the TreeHugger blog for green hipsters:
TreeHugger
is the definitive, modern yet green lifestyle filter. It will help you
improve your course, yet still maintain your aesthetic.
Among the concepts they push is the “Product Service Systems,” that is, the transformation of a product into a service. Zipcar
is the quintissential PSS, turning consumers [...]
