By Robert Silvey Michael Pollan’s delectable new book, The Omnivore’s Dilemma, examines the wretched state of modern agriculture—and the unhealthy relationship most of us have with what we eat—by tracing the origin and consumption of four very different meals. He concludes that Americans now live in a wasteland of bland, interchangeable commodities, dominated by monocultured […]
Archive | June 17, 2007
Dynamic duos (almost) never last…Woodward and Bernstein 35 years after….
I’ve been thinking about some of the famous duos that emerged in the 20th century: Batman and Robin, Ross and Rachel, Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Montana and Rice, Mantle and Maris, Martin and Lewis, Lucy and Desi….They cut across the panorama of popular culture. How many of them lasted? Okay, Batman and Robin […]
A short-term solution to our political debate problem
If you’ve been following the Presidential debates even as tenuously as I have, you’ve probably noticed that they’re, well, boring. All the candidates are playing to their base because that’s what they think will get them through the primaries and a win at the conventions. Unfortunately, the candidates are right – that’s how our severely […]
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