Pro CommerceI love commerce. Commerce and technology define the "modern world." Both thrive on meritocracy, diversity and openness.Gay marriage- June 16, 2008 You haven't heard much from me about gay marriage. The reason is simple. I haven't read or heard any good arguments one way or the other. Nothing challenging to think about, just trite political jousts and feints. That has changed....http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/gay-marriage.html Jews and blacks- June 15, 2008 Back when blacks were Negroes, the ones that made it into college found that their only friends were Jews. I lived in that era. When the anti-white anti-Semitic Black Muslims came along, that pattern of Jew-Negro friendship slowly disappeared. Roughly...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/jews-and-blacks.html Houses are as conservative as education- June 14, 2008 I worked in education hoping to generate improvements starting in the early 1960s and going through the mid-1970s. I saw many excellent and successful programs, but I never saw one that spread widely among schools systems. Education seems impervious to...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/houses-are-as-conservative-as-education.html My offspring- June 13, 2008 I was president of Point Foundation. Point was started by Stewart Brand with the royalties from the printing of the Last Whole Earth Catalog. The object of the foundation was to find and invent new forms of charitable giving that...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/my-offspring.html Bet on American Puritianism- June 12, 2008 I'm betting on Puritanism. I know of nothing that is deeper, more significant nor more persistent than American Puritanism. It raises its head every time in every circumstance where it is possible. So what is the relevance of American Puritanism...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/bet-on-american-puritianism.html The future is old- June 12, 2008 The first Star Wars film introduced a new concept: the starship flown by Hans Solo was a clunky old space freighter. Something old , junky, in the future. The Hans Solo starship was a stylistic idea that generated grunge and...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/the-future-is-old.html A strong rebuke- June 11, 2008 I was at party talking to a very good looking female Harvard biology post-doc in the mid-1970s at a time when I was leading a movement to keep Japan from being demonized for their research whaling. I knew the data....http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/a-strong-rebuke.html Bush's permanent change- June 10, 2008 I think there is good reason to believe that the first truly close relationship between Israel and the U.S. which is entirely the personal creation of President G.W. Bush is of significant international historic importance. Why First, Israeli's now know...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/bushs-permanent-change.html Heads up, the sky may be falling- June 9, 2008 I have to give you a heads up about a couple of articles. One by William Livingstone and Matthew Penn of the National Solar Observatory shows a straight line of decreasing sun spots and consequent serious global cooling over the...http://phillips.blogs.com/goc/2008/06/heads-up-the-sky-may-be-falling.html |