The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

Thanks to Elliot for passing this op ed piece my way.
That quality work force was the single biggest reason the U.S. emerged as the economic superpower of the 20th century. Generation after generation, American workers were better educated, more industrious and more innovative than the ones that came before.
That progress stopped about 30 years ago.
On [...]

From Deputy Dog (follow the link, there are great photos!):
there are so many reasons to love this beauty that it’s hard to know where to start. it’s got 13 floors which, to me at least, makes it a skyscraper. it’s entirely made of wood, thus making it a wooden skyscraper. it was made by the [...]

Tendinitis sucks. For real.
Back in August, Michelle asked me to run the BAA Half Marathon with her. No problem, I said! We had run the Dublin Marathon in 2005, so 13.1 miles was definitely not intimidating, plus I was starting off with a pretty decent fitness base. I had been playing [...]

Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters is perhaps the most insightful article I’ve read about the current presidential race. In a race full of baby boomer politicians–Clinton, McCain, Guiliani–why does Obama seem to stick out so much? It’s not that he’s black. I don’t even think that it’s about the Politics [...]