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I’d love to be Obama’s Speech Writer

While watching Obama’s excellent address to the joint session of congress, I wondered who wrote his terrific speech.

It’s Jon Favreau, called “Favs” by his friends, a 27 year old who plays video games to relax and likes to hang out at Starbucks or another coffee shop to write the brilliant speeches for our brilliant President [...]

February 24th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , | Category: Political, Social Culture | Leave a comment

Humanist Symposium #16, Facing the Void

I live in Columbus, Ohio, where we don’t normally get a lot of snow in Winter. But we had a New England style blizzard last night. It’s still snowing and blowing. At times the swirls are blinding. It covers and mutes everything. This snow chaos can be intimidating without warmth and security of a home [...]

March 8th, 2008 | Category: Blog Carnivals, Humanism, Social Culture | 11 comments

Why I Am a Classical Musician

I carve a tiny piece of wood off the base of the reed. The shaving isn’t much larger than one or two hairs of daily growth on a man’s face. Almost nothing. I put the reed back on the mouthpiece and fasten it with the ligature. I form an embouchure and play the scale I [...]

January 18th, 2008 | Category: Culture, Personal, Social Culture | 13 comments

David Brooks says it outright

The [US] presidency is a bacterium. It finds the open wounds in the people who hold it. It infects them, and the resulting scandals infect the presidency and the country. The person with the fewest wounds usually does best in the White House, and is best for the country.

David Brooks’ article on Obama vs. [...]

December 18th, 2007 | Category: Social Culture | One comment

Not Guilty for Being in Pain

I am not guilty because I am in pain. I am not a criminal because I want to be pain free.

I was released from a central Ohio hospital Thursday after major surgery to my abdomen. The incision is 8 inches long. The morning of the day I left, I still needed intravenous Dilaudid to relieve [...]

November 17th, 2007 | Category: Personal, Social Culture | 24 comments
 
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