Pro CommerceI love commerce. Commerce and technology define the "modern world." Both thrive on meritocracy, diversity and openness.Racial healing- June 23, 2008 Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is not a healer of racial differences. In many ways Obama is aggravating the problem of racial differences in America. Survey data shows that the greatest antagonism between ethnic groups in America is not white...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/racial-healing.html Online photos- June 22, 2008 I seem to be on the email lists for the scurrilous anti-Obama material (please keep sending them to me). The photo on the right is his family on his paternal side. This is supposed to scare some people. Obama is...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/online-photos.html Texting is Hebrew- June 22, 2008 The headline of this blog is pretty much the full blog. Hebrew is written mostly without vowels, just as texting on thumb operated cell phones is mostly vowel-less. Reading Hebrew means putting in your own mental vowels and paying close...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/texting-is-hebrew.html Bush's greatness- June 21, 2008 George W.Bush does two things that will endear him to Americans of the future and many others in the world. Schools, streets and public facilities will be named after President George W. Bush for centuries to come. First, he doesn't...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/bushs-greatness.html Crooked black man stereotype- June 21, 2008 I spent more than a decade as treasurer of a black Methodist church. With a black minister and dozens of black staffers I knew I had one important job: make sure the church was never seen messing around with money.....no...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/crooked-black-man-stereotype.html Best conspiracy theory- June 20, 2008 If you are a conspiracy theorist I would like to point something out to you. If you are a Jew concerned about anti-Semitism, I'd like to point out the same material to you. It is very hard to come up...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/best-conspiracy-theory.html America turned optimistic- June 18, 2008 It is not just the current McDonald's commercials that indicate America has turned optimistic. I feel the optimism in the air. I expect the Republican Convention to be a rollicking affair of great excitement. I expect the focus of attention...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/america-turned-optimistic.html Inadvertent....no- June 18, 2008 In a room in the Contemporary Jewish Museum there is a sculptural 6 foot tall replica of the horn antenna that Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson used when they found the sound of creation, in 1964; the 2 degree Kelvin...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/inadvertentno.html Jewseum- June 17, 2008 The title Jewseum doesn't have a pleasant ring to it. But that is what some of my friends are calling the new Contemporary Jewish Museum. The wonderful NYTimes event reviewer Ed Rothstein gave the Museum a negative review. He felt...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/jewseum.html Left lesson to learn- June 17, 2008 I frequently rage against the Left for its failure to acknowledge and appreciate reliable data that proves the entire Lefty worldview to be wrong. Well a big pile of data just washed up on the front door of every Lefty...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/left-lesson-to-learn.html |