Blog Master G

I hope this 7pm ET showing replays at my 7pm here in California on the queen (to Fox’s king) of conservative stations, MSNBC: Hardball College Tour: Bill Maher (Thanks, Jose Luis, for the heads up.)

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I was appalled to learn yesterday that among the 600-plus prisoners being held without charges and without legal rights at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba is a handful of 13- to 16-year-old boys, who, after more than a year in some cases, are finally being released. This is thanks, in part, to pressure from Colin Powell. […]

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Anyone who thinks that the U.S. Patriot Act is a good idea should read this account of why it’s so dangerous to our basic freedoms and Constitutional rights as Americans. (Thanks, Shannon, for the link.)

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The rain dried up, the clouds parted, and the sun shone on a picture-perfect San Francisco day that greeted the 2003 San Francisco Bay Area Vassar Club Founder’s Day picnic. More than a dozen VC alums representing classes from the mid-1980s all the way through the most recent graduating class of 2002 (soon to be […]

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Last night Jen, Jess, Ben, James, and I saw X2 at AMC Van Ness here in San Francisco. I wasn’t too impressed by the first installment of the Marvel Comics story of Professor X, Wolverine, Jean Grey, Cyclops, and the rest of the gang. But X2 — named simply that in the title screen of […]

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Aron Ralston has balls of steel. He is my new hero. Stranded under a 1,000-pound boulder, he saved his own life by amputing his own arm with a pocket knife. I can’t imagine. Then he scaled 75 feet down the cliff and walked into the emergency room on his own. I’m sure he’ll soon be […]

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Which would you rather do? Exist as a conjoined twin or carry inside you the dead fetus of your unborn twin for 7 years and have it feed from your body only to be surgically removed when doctors realize that what they thought was a tumor was actually not? BBC NEWS | Health | Boy […]

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Why is it that most companies that provide customer service via email never actually answer your questions, forcing you either to seek answers yourself or to engage in a never-ending back-and-forth email exchange? Take this recent example related to my experience in placing a series of orders via Amazon and Alibris for my Dad’s first […]

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Last April when Jen and I went to Italy, we spent the final few days of our trip in the magical water city of Venice, an incredibly romantic place, to say the least. I proposed to Jen on a gondola in Venice, so the city will always hold a special place in my heart. This […]

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I’m in the market for a new world wall map but can’t decide which one I want. This satellite map is by far my favorite — a joint effort by the NASA Jet Propulsion Lab and National Geographic. But it does not have country names; only the continents are labeled. So my runners-up are this […]

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