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...original - modern art is stupid, consumer-product warning labels are inane - but he is a great performer, flying around the stage and making fun of his profuse sweating and apocalyptic fears. He did an impression of Tim Geithner as an elf from Lord of the Rings and a solid inflation joke about Geithner's being turned away from Antiques Roadshow after bringing a barrel of U.S. dollars. This was much better than my runaway-inflation joke about paying $20 to watch a Glenn Beck concert in a movie theater...
Netanyahu was reportedly shocked to discover, during his recent Washington trip, that Obama's position on settlements had the backing of many key friends of Israel on Capitol Hill. The President, in his Cairo speech, reaffirmed a rock-solid bond with Israel based on ensuring its security in a hostile environment. But that support doesn't translate into condoning the "Greater Israel" expansion into occupied territories represented by the settlements, which play little role in Israel's security today except as a drain on resources. A settlement freeze, conceived in the so-called Road Map to peace (first outlined...
...While the core skills of journalism will always be solid reporting and clear writing, it's not just about storytelling anymore," says Berkeley's director of new media Paul Grabowicz. He adds that although some old-school media companies may be "slow" or "hesitant" - or too broke - to hire techies, they will be forced to do so in order to compete with more entrepreneurial ventures...
...into repetitive, menial, dissatisfying tasks. "Wherever the separation of thinking from doing has been achieved," he writes, "it has been responsible for the degradation of work." Crawford, a political-philosophy Ph.D. and motorcycle-shop owner, stresses the importance of the manual trades and the cognitive challenge of working with solid things (preferably grimy, metal ones). He packs plenty of intellectual firepower into his polemic, quoting Aristotle in his own translation and sprinkling the text with erudite footnotes. Like Robert M. Pirsig's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Crawford's book reveals both why we do what...
...waves, take photos for tourists or simply to have something to do on flat days. It wasn't until the late 1990s that the modern explosion began, thanks to big wave surfer and exercise guru Laird Hamilton picking up SUP and publicizing it as simultaneously adventurous, peaceful and a solid form of core conditioning for surfers and non-surfers alike. (Read an interview with surfing legend Kelly Slater...