This morning’s massive earthquake in Chile caught my attention because of its magnitude: 8.8. I remember experiencing the Loma Prieta quake here in the Bay Area in October of 1989. That one was pegged at something like 6.8, so the quake in Chile was one hundred times more powerful. As I write this, tsunamis are [...]
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Much is being made of the anniversary of Armstrong and Aldrin’s walk on the moon that took place forty years ago today. Into this glut of remembrance and reminiscence I will add a few more words that I’m sure have been echoed elsewhere. I write this not because I am old enough to remember and [...] I’ve been giving some thought lately to the idea that some corporations are “too big to fail.” It feels terribly wrong at the gut level, perhaps because America was originally envisioned as a place where people could fail and not wind up in some endless hell of debtor’s prison or servitude. We tend to forget [...] Every age has its cadre of doom-sayers, partly because every age has its own brand of crisis that might look like the End of Days has come. The current recession (or proto-Depression, if you will), is prompting a lot of concern and rightly so. There are a lot of people out there who are losing [...] When I heard the news that Israel was once again sending its military might against the people of Gaza, I suddenly remembered something I had heard on the radio a little over a year ago. I was working on some small project at a small workbench I’ve set up in our garage. I had my laptop [...] |
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