Tag / culture

In the past cou­ple of weeks, a friend (who is gay) told me that two peo­ple asked him if I was gay. It appears that the com­mon thread is that I am con­sid­ered sen­si­tive. I guess, more sen­si­tive than one would expect a straight male to be. (more on this later) I didn’t have a […]

I recently came across a new video pro­duced by RSA Ani­mate. RSA Ani­mate adapts talks pre­sented at its par­ent orga­ni­za­tion, UK-based Royal Soci­ety for the encour­age­ment of Arts, Man­u­fac­tures and Com­merce (RSA), into very clever white­board pre­se­n­a­tions. In this video video, First as Tragedy, Then as Farce, RSA Ani­mate cre­ates a visual depic­tion of a […]

“There’s a dif­fer­ence between a ther­mo­stat and a ther­mome­ter.” I love it! Check out this great piece by Cor­nel West, recorded on Novem­ber 9, 2009. Pay par­tic­u­lar atten­tion to some of the issues Dr. West said would con­front Obama, and whether he thought Obama was up to the chal­lenge. West draws a very telling comparison/analogy […]

I sat down for a leisurely morn­ing with a freshly made omelet and bacon. The chan­nel was on ESPN, and the show Out­side the Lines just started. The lead story this week was called “White Out.” The piece exam­ined the small num­ber of white, American-born play­ers in the NBA. I said “as if on cue,” […]

Man on the left: Wow, this water sure is cold!Man on the right: Yeah, and it’s deep, too. I know a lot of peo­ple have a thing with think­ing big­ger is bet­ter. With­out even dar­ing to touch where some may think I’m going with this…what I’m really think­ing about is the sud­den rise in pitch of […]

I really don’t have any head shak­ing, fin­ger wag­ging, or guilt trips to lay down about Tiger’s recent “issue.” I know things hap­pen. Tiger, like all of us, is human. He and his fam­ily deserve space to work this out. I do not feel like his family’s drama unrav­el­ing in pub­lic is the price he […]

Today is World AIDS Day, and I’m Going Red. Here’s what Going Red is all about.       You can learn more at Join Red. If you’re on Face­book or Twit­ter, you can Go Red, too. I found this inter­est­ing take on World Aids Day, and thought it was worth shar­ing.  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leigh-blake/heroes-and-villains-a-wor_b_374606.html This is an […]