September 2008
7 posts
Palin & Fear
I’m really sorry to post a political statement on my blog, but I feel like this one is necessary:
If John McCain is elected president of our great country, I will be upset at a lost opportunity, but I will not fret about the nation’s future too much. It will remain largely at is is now. Maybe a few things will even get better while a few get worse. However, if Mr. McCain dies in...
“Advertising is often seen as a prisoner’s dilemma among firms, because...”
– from the answer key to a question that asked why, even with the ban on cigarette commercials, there was no drop in smoking.
The truth
On a recent trip across Ghana, I played the game “Two Truths and a Lie” with a group of 16 other people—mostly highly cultured, well traveled, and intelligent adults—and I was able to correctly guess people’s lies with astonishing success.
The game is simple: people make three statements about themselves or their life experiences, two of which are true and one of...
WatchShe’s going to have the nuclear codes!
Metallica's Hetfield and Trujillo (vocalist and... →
These two men, interviewed exclusively for I Heart Music, discuss six of their new songs with an openness and clarity rarely seen in other bands, let alone metal ones.
Of course*, if you actually want to listen to those songs, you may. But I’m not sure how much of my audience is Metallica-friendly. (*This wasn’t always the case with Metallica—they have long angered music fans...
