The Way We Live Now – Going Offline in Search of Freedom

I’m not wishing the Internet away. It has become so integral to my work — to my life — that I honestly can’t recall what I did without it. But it has allowed us to reflexively indulge every passing interest, to expect answers to every fleeting question, to believe that if we search long enough, [...]

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Get Over Susan Boyle You Vapid Freak!

Yesterday’s New York Times article, “Yes, Looks Do Matter” about Susan Boyle, the dowdy Scottish spinster with a face for radio who sang her way to fame on “Britain’s Got Talent” TV show turned me beet red with anger and stimulated an ice cream style headache.
Are we as a society that f**king shallow? Why are we this fascinated with [...]

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Design Set The Newspaper Free

I’ve been Tweeting about canceling my NYT subscription in favor of the paper’s free iPhone application for several weeks.
On Friday, I made it official and canceled my favorite newspaper. I will no longer receive The New York Times during the week — only on Sunday’s. It’s not that I’ve lost my [...]

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Tolstoy’s Life Lessons

 
For once I have nothing to add…
Tolstoy’s Forbidden Book
By Alexander Green
Russian writer Leo Tolstoy was one of the greatest novelists of all time. His two masterpieces, “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina,” are widely regarded as the very pinnacle of realist fiction. 
In many ways, Tolstoy had it all. By his mid-40s, he was rich, in [...]

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