Spotify has arrived in the US! Twitter was all abuzz when the announcement came, and lots of my friends jumped […]
Category: culture
Bad News? The Future of NPR and the New York Times
There have been a couple of interesting developments in news media in recent weeks. The first development is the mostly […]
Gawande on Healthcare’s Super-Utilizers
In my last post I attempted to list the things I found especially resonant last year in media, entertainment, art […]
On Happy Meals and the Nanny State
The latest highly-publicized, hotly-ridiculed move by my adopted city of San Francisco was to ban the Happy Meal. And so […]
Have You Ever Killed a Person With Your Car?
The ongoing BP / Deepwater Horizon oil disaster is a sickening object lesson in the evils of oil. Of course […]
Losing My Religion
I was a good Bryn Athyn boy once. Many people reading this will have no idea what that means, but […]
Our Missed Opportunity
Things are ugly right now. After the healthcare bill passed, we all heard how a few so-called tea baggers hurled […]
Two Futures
I feel like the media constantly bombards us with two completely opposite visions of the future: In future #1 I […]
Coming Soon to Google Street View: The Inside of Your House
Today I walked down to Cafe Dolci to grab a banh mi (I always order a combo of grilled pork […]