Diary

High noon in duel for White House

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Andrew Sullivan sums up what we can expect of the next weeks until the November election. The phoney war is over as the US presidential candidates square up for the most compelling contest in a generation. The eagerly anticipated text message arrived on millions of mobile phones yesterday at 3am. With it, many Americans who image [Read More]
Movies, Phantasy

The Dark Knight

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When Heath Ledger died early this year, I was deeply disturbed by his death.  I surprised myself by the strength of my sadness.  What made it so difficult to accept his untimely death was my sense that this extraordinary talent could have mesmerized us for decades to come with his acting skills. The best thing image [Read More]
Comedy, Movies

Sex and the City

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The four ladies of HBO’s “Sex and the City” comedy series continue their adventure in New York. The writers infused the film with a good sense of fun. At times it is also a bit sexually daring, but for the most part it falls into the genre of a tame romantic comedy. This is not image [Read More]
Diary

Only in America

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  Part 2: May 6, 2009 A Complicated Question  By MAUREEN DOWD (NY Times) I had dinner once with John and Elizabeth Edwards, when he first burst onto the national scene. Looking across the booth at her grinning, boyish husband, she told me that it was irritating to be married to someone so comely who looked so much [Read More]
Diary

Is John McCain fit to be President?

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While everyone was focusing on Obama’s world tour last week, Frank Rich puts the spotlight on McCain and raises serious questions whether McCain is ability the see what the priorities of the day are. How Obama Became Acting President By FRANK RICH (NYT) IT almost seems like a gag worthy of He never would have been treated image [Read More]
Diary

The visions of Buckminster Fuller

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Elizabeth Kolbert (New Yorker June 9, 2008) presents a wonderful portrait of Buckminster Fuller (yes, this a name of a person).  My own imagination was fired up when I read some of Fuller’s incredible ideas. Annals of Innovation: Dymaxion Man The U.S. Pavilion for the 1967 World Fuller called his invention the Dymaxion Vehicle. He believed that it image [Read More]