Category Archives: culture

/ Culture / Ethnic Minority 2018 05 18 pk is all German on my father’s side, half German on my mothers. The remaining half on my mother’s side is British: Engish. That’s the proud half: the Scottish side: a half … Continue reading →

/ Culture / Custom Forensics Everyday now some Yahoo article chases you into a corner, you can’t duck it, can’t get rid of it. This morning there was one on actors chaning their names from Jewish to WASP: Isador Cohen … Continue reading →

/ Society / Survival / Culture / The gal reporter gets groped while on the air: she whaps the guy with her mic! I remember a friend’s mother proudly reporting that she had been groped on a street in Italy, … Continue reading →

/ Teaching / Society / Survival / Culture / 2018 04 30 Bucky Fuller used to say that the world comes without an instruction manual. By the time we figure a rule out, typically the rule has changed. I suspect … Continue reading →

/ Culture / I just remembered a date from the 1970s. I was invited to a party by a client in Rockville Centre on Long Island. The party was in Balkwin. My client’s granddaughter would be there: a former Broadway … Continue reading →

/ Culture / I have a rare memory: I remember Pearl Harbor! US involvement in WWII was packed into the next couple of years: ’41 to ’45. I also remember in that period hearing huge airplanes overhead: bracing, trembling. There … Continue reading →

Quantification is a key concept, modern and still only partially developed: Galileo timed things with his pulse: most people still don’t get it, not even if they’re in a science department at Harvard. Wimbledon is coming, the tennis world, the … Continue reading →

Follows from Anti-Semitism Trumping the Jews 2017 08 21 I’ve long seen the vicious anti-everything just under the verneer of civilization, but I never expected to see it bald, menacing, and unapologetic the way it’s been since Trump’s campaign began … Continue reading →

/ Culture / promoting this from archive to module: Lots of news, all over, confusion over gender. Now some law says people must use bathrooms according to the gender listed on their birth certificates! No, no, if there were any … Continue reading →