On Food & Culture
Yes, yes, yes. Although still waiting for Virginia and Montana to be official, winning the House so handily means we’ll have some answers and information about this war, our energy policy (It was Ken Lay and Jeff Skilling surely who were the advisors whom Cheney …
This morning my thoughts are about: A time to support and celebrate Catholic, Protestant and other insitutional churces that show their love for tenn lesbians, gays. They are so desperately needed. The reason is that during a breakfast meeting I learned that a prominent local …
Check this out from the Rosie O’Donnell blog, this was a letter written by a brother of a soldier killed in Iraq. You can check it out also on www.rosie.com It is Pat’s birthday on November 6, and elections are the day after. It gets …
The screening of the documentary about Jehovah’s Witnesses, “Knocking,” produced by Joel P. engardio and Tom Shepard was a standing room only event at the University of Boulder. It was part of the conference on “Fundamentalism and the Media.” The documentary is successful in expressing …
Last night the keynote address of the International Conference on Fundamentalism and the Media by Scott Appleby was long (over 70 minutes) engagingly dense and, at the conclusion stirring. Held at the beautiful Old Main Chapel auditorium on the campus of the University of Colorado, …
Thanks to Peter Horsfield who reminded me to go see the Holocaust Memorial while I was working in Berlin last week. I beautiful art experience that made my day. It’s about contemporary city life, relationships and how we can easily get lost to each other. …
Congratulations to Rodrigo Ramirez and his small Linux community in Chillan, Chile, who last Saturday inaugurated a 20-computer lab in a Catholic elementary school, completely open source, free software. The school, San José, now begins a training program for the kids and their parents. It …
I cancelled my mobile telephone contract with cingular/formerly AT&T. I don’t know that my new one will be any better, but I’m trying to avoid paying money into these corporations that want to make the Internet their highway to control (with government permission) of ideas …
It’s been a long dry spell of non-blogging but now I’m back into a routine of cyber access. Para mis amigos en América Latino les recuerdo inscribirse para participar en el congreso nacional de software libre en Chile. This week I shared with friends the …
I’ve just heard from Heidi Cambpell that she is in Israel, a refugee in Jerusalem after having to leave Haifa. Another close connection to the violence. I’ve been off my blog because work and travel have left me exhausted. Did meet many exciting new friends …