Today I’m traveling: the modern miracle of waking up in one country and falling asleep in another. It does make for a weird in between sort of day. I saw some of my oldest friends on this trip and actually had a fair amount of time for a good conversations with each of them. It’s... Continue Reading →
How Many Trees Make a Forest?
My partner is an ecologist (as a profession) and he said you can plant trees all you want, but you cannot plant a forest. There are so many intricate relationships between bacteria, soil composition, mushrooms, insects, birds and so forth, that it is almost impossible to plant a forest. What I find interesting is the... Continue Reading →
What do We Owe Each Other (part I: equality and fairness)
http://bostonreview.net/books-ideas/martin-oneill-tm-scanlon-inequality This article by Martin O'Neill is a review of T.M. Scanlon's book in the Boston Review. " There is, on Scanlon’s view, a great deal more to the normative significance of equality. We don’t just want to see equal distribution of some thing. We want to live together, on terms of equal recognition, in ways that... Continue Reading →
A Bad Joke
My partner asked if there’s any way to end a relationship in a happy way. I said that if you wanted to kill your ex- and they died, that might make you happy. Foro just shakes his head at me.... Foro, laughing in spite of himself
Moove your cow, and your mind will follow. 