Mar 19, 2007
I like the Comfort Zone. I don’t want to admit it. I don’t want you to know how much I enjoy the sense of safety and security afforded to me by living in one of the richest places on earth. It’s comfortable, in fact, to be pretty rich (e. g. a hot shower or latte any time I want, access to almost any kind of education I want, academic or otherwise, all the free white-out I can use in a 10-minute frenzy at the copy place). But it’s also comfortable to be not super-rich… always having to discern who are the best organizations to give your money to and always having to take time to let people pay you for the great ideas coming out of your head, constantly producing all this value. Value coming out of your pores. People are bottling and selling your sweat like in The Jerk. You’re trying to get some peace and quiet and people are studying how you sleep and rest so richly.
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Mar 16, 2007
ENVIRONMENTALISM IN VOGUE
The Bush Administration is putting on a new environmentally friendly face. Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth just won the Academy Award for Best Documentary. Environmental headlines are flashing across the cable news crawl every day.
After thirty or forty years of scientists’ warnings, the media and the public are finally starting to come around to the fact that environmental issues like global warming, biodiversity, and human population need to be at the top of the agenda. And the business community is finally understanding that what is good for the environment is also good for the bottom line. Making money and contributing to the health of the planet: what could be better!?
GREAT NEW BUSINESS IDEAS!
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Mar 2, 2007
So this morning there was another email from Moveon.org. Usually I click on the link and sign it and, well, move on. That’s why they call it move on. But this morning I started typing a comment in the comment box, and this is what came out:
“As someone who works in the news, I know how difficult it is these days to speak the truth when the bottom line is always looming above us. More than ever, we need to stand for truth instead of fear, and we need the media to take that stand with us. I’m sick of Fox’s sensationalism, fearmongering, hijacking of our language, and imposing their “truth” by brute force and loudness. Fox has created a Frankenstein with slickly stitched body parts of news, entertainment, horror movie, and unabashed partisan political aggression. And I feel broken-hearted and, sadly, jaded by the manner in which the rest of the news companies have followed Fox’s lead into this dangerous laboratory.
Dr. Martin Luther King said that the arc of justice is long. He didn’t mean, “Wait a while and we’ll see what good things happen.” He meant, “Persevere in your diligent work for justice; your action will yield fruit.” Let us take that action today.”
(And we can take that action, in an armchair-liberal sort of way, by signing this petition here that I happen to have linked right here: http://civ.moveon.org/foxdebate )
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