I'm rejoicing that the brilliant vegan student he coached completed her graduate application to Harvard; it's in the works! YES!
Vegetarian In Boston
Vegetarian In Boston Maynard S. Clark's Veggie and Boston Blog talks about vegetarian topics AND Boston-related topics, often intersecting them interestingly. Maynard S. Clark is a long-time and well-known vegan in Greater Boston, who often quips in his 'elevator pitch': "I've been vegan now for over half my natural life, longer than most human earthlings have been alive."
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Coaching a brilliant student about her shift into a slightly different field so she can do further graduate work at Harvard. YES!
Looking for highly-skilled responsible oral historian-archivists with followthrough & track record for high-quality vegetarian oral history.
Oh, my. Rights v well-being - whose obligation(s) is/are the well-being of the public/others in particular/oneself/future generations?
Friday, November 28, 2008
Now, down to earth on preparing that bioethics website to go live on Monday, so I can market the course to internationals and break even.
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Urging my social media friends to read my various blogs AND to 'friend' me everywhere (FB, Grouply, 360, and tell me WHERE they 'know' me...
How many (well-intentioned) "Happy Thanksgiving" messages have YOU read, and how much holiday time have you spent reading them??
Making connections for plant-based diets and cruelty-free lifestyles that are at once rights-based AND other-sensitive, respecting persons.
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
Slavery wasn't defended in terms of rights; it was justified in terms of economics. Animal slavery is justified the same way - PLUS TASTES.
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Thinking how time and the love of family and friends heal so much grief, sadness, and (hopefully temporary) dysfunctionality.
Monday, November 24, 2008
I'm OK with the bailout/partial buyout. The taxpayers have a reasonably fair deal. Now listen to Jimmy Carter on Zimbabwe. They do suffer
Aggressive blog marketing, not mere content, seems to make the difference in visitorship, as I've shown by 2 different blogs w/same platform
Aggressive blog marketing, not mere content, seems to make the difference in visitorship, as I've shown by blogging twice on same platform.
Sunday, November 23, 2008
Watching Sunday PM's 2-hour 24 Redemption/better than hoped. Sutherland's public drunkenness reeks - literally!! http://tinyurl.com/5q5vp7
preparing to watch this evening's 2-hour 24 Redemption, though Sutherland's public drunkenness reeks - literally!! http://tinyurl.com/5q5vp7
Saturday, November 22, 2008
I have many well-formed thoughts on many topics - but very few soundbites. You can quote me on that.
DO 'friend' me in places where you haven't friended' me already: LinkedIn, 360, Multiply, Facebook, MySpace, Xing, PickensPlan, MyBlogLog
I like the new Digsby - My public urging "Please 'friend' me everywhere" has yielded hundreds of new 'online friends' - many worthwhile.
Friday, November 21, 2008
Thursday, November 20, 2008
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Posting BVA argument: rights-based veganism is defensible and, for animals' sake, desirable. But more, why rights-based veganism is just.
Posting BVA argument: rights-based veganism is defensible and, for animals' sake, desirable. But more, why rights-based veganism is just.
Working in Harvard's Longwood Medical Area, where the ENTIRE LMA will go PERMANENTLY SMOKE-FREE on November 20 for Great American Smokeout !
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
What's to say? HOUSE is on TV tonight. Stock market is DOWN, DOWN, DOWN. Do we STILL HOLD? Most folks BAIL OUT, and others get bargains.
Monday, November 17, 2008
Things are SO contingent and outcomes so tenuous (and people SO hard-hearted), that the "quantities" make good outcomes unlikely. Hopeless!
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Found all the new Simpsons episodes online for free. I'll talk with 'universal friends' who friend me on LinkedIn, Facebook, everywhere...
A central tenet of ecological economics is that the planet is the foundation of the economy. The economy does not exist in a vacuum.
A central tenet of ecological economics is that the planet is the foundation of the economy. The economy does not exist in a vacuum.
A central tenet of ecological economics is that the planet is the foundation of the economy. The economy does not exist in a vacuum in space but rather is part of, and dependent upon the Earth.
Will Facebook members who added 'Hussein' as their middle names be removing them after the Obama victory? after inauguration? ever?
Saturday's 10-hour "Just Health: Current Debates" - a conference on the recent book by Normal Daniels at HMS Gordon Hall, was OUTSTANDING !!
Friday, November 14, 2008
Attending "Just Health: Current Debates" - a conference on the recent book by Normal Daniels-all day Saturday at HMS, Gordon Hall - 8:30-6pm
Thursday, November 13, 2008
I'll be at "An Inconvenient Food at Emmanuel College" until around 9 pm this evening, then home. Looks like MOST US stocks are UP, UP, AWAY!
My retirement funds have been weathering well the economic meltdown, until today when everything else when up, then they plummeted 4.4-5.5%.
I'm in the LMA Salt Mines "doing ethics" all week through Saturday evening, when I'll be celebrating animal rights.
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
I've had a very good day today. I've accomplished much; I've played; and a loved one has found me again. Now, home to the cat(s).
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
3 last days in bioethics, social medicine, and global health in Longwood Medical Area, then celebrate book by Norm Daniels, then CA's Prop 2
Between noisy tenant UPSTAIRS pounding around on the floor and a noisy exerciser on the floor below.
"Getting caught up" at home on Veterans' Day, listening to NPR's analysis of our social issues with the US military.
Resting at home on Veterans' Day. There have been some "soft terminations" - yet again. Oh, my. Do we believe that?
Monday, November 10, 2008
Hope2work ALL day on 2009 bioethics summer intensive course: Ethical Issues in International Health Research www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/.
Hope2work ALL day on 2009 bioethics summer intensive course: Ethical Issues in International Health Research www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/
Sunday, November 09, 2008
is at BVS program this afternoon and evening @Grasshopper re: vegetable-oil-powered personal vehicles
LinkedIn contacts nearing 1000 and Facebook friends nearing 2250; please 'friend' me and link with me everywhere! Yes, EVERYWHERE !!
BVS this afternoon (4pm) +evening focuses on vegetable-oil-powered transportation, followed by vegan buffet @Allston-Brighton's Grasshopper.
Watching Sunday morning "talking heads" political talk shows: this week, Fox, Meet the Press, Teen News, etc. Then BVS re: vegetable-oil car
Saturday, November 08, 2008
Saturday's monthly all-vegan day at My Thai in Brookline was great: Vegan Meetup, Vegan Toastmasters, BVA (Boston Vegan Assn). Get on board
Friday, November 07, 2008
Hitting the hay -- "To everything there is a season, and a time for everything under heaven." Yawn! It's not boring; it's the hours.
There's NO ONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD online right now I need to chat with tonight, so I'm powering down, doing the news, then resting (zzzzzz)
Ther's NO ONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD online right now that I need to chat with tonight, so I'm powering down, doing the news, and resting (zzzz)
All day Saturday at My Thai in Brookline MA is the monthly all-vegan day, from 11:30 am to 7:30 pm. I'll be there, meeting new folks etc.
Custodian locked me out of my own office; spoke with guards, who let me in, and supervisor, who will speak with custodian about duties.
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Plugging the cable into my laptop seems to have resolved my wifi connection, so I could keep my IM commitments to the world. Why is that?
I've "put in" an INCREDIBLY CREDIBLE day in Harvard's Longwood Medical Area; now I'm going home. Ready: ZZZZZZ
Thinking Terry Gross SHOULD be talking about Humane California and doing similiar referenda in all the other US states.
It's a rainy day outside; correspondence & filing indoors - massive amounts of materials should be put into a meaningful semblance of order.
Rainy day outside; filing indoors - massive amounts of materials should be put into a meaningful semblance of "order"
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Got all my publications; now cleaning up then going home - VERY tired after all that hullaballoo last night about Obama.
Heading over to Countway Medical Library for six (6) more articles in psychiatry and ethics, which cost up to $51 each, unless from Countway
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
McCain's gracious concession. Watch California Prop 2 (farm animals) as polls closed;Mass Prop 3 (greyhounds), which easily passed by ~56%.
Watching California Prop #3 (farm animals) as polls closed, and Massachusetts Prop # 3 (greyhounds), which easily passed by ~56%.
Watching California Prop #3 (farm animals) and Massachusetts Prop # 3 (greyhounds), which we are confident has passed.
Thinking of going to sleep to avoid anxiety EXCEPT this TV watchnight explains how elections & polling work and why voters acted as they did
Working on the 2009 EIIHR website at http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/ (that's CURRENTLY the OLD site for 2006-2008). It NEEDS work...
Heading to the Countway Medical Library at HMS, across the LMA Quad, enjoying the 'up' stock market. Ha!
Checking out how often I've been cited in books in print, since my vegan friend, Lev of Google, has been working on Google Book Search!
Monday, November 03, 2008
Enjoying Saturday Night Live's 2008 Presidential Bash on NBC. How about I going to get to sleep in time to be wide awake by 6 am?
Enjoying Saturday Night Live's 2008 Presidential Bash on NBC. How about I going to get to sleep in time to be wide awake by 6 am?
Hoping to get EXTRA sleep tonight so I can vote as EARLY as possible Tuesday morning and STILL be at work in LMA by 9 am. WHEW!
Watching the current liberal and conservative 'loyaltyfests' that are long on gut emotion and short on rationality
Revised 2009 bioethics website nearly done for summer course; dong marketing matls, teaching schedule, applications; processing travel costs
Sunday, November 02, 2008
The number of my Facebook 'friends' (are you a 'friend'?) approaches 2200 and LinkedIn contacts is 965. There's math in everything !
The number of his Facebook 'friends' (are you a 'friend'?) approaches 2200. There's math in everything.
Puzzling why, despite much animal protectionist support in US (including McCain), there's much overt oppression of wildlife & food animals.
Listening to rebroadcast of today's "Meet the Press": John McCain's math problem in overturning Obama's likely win.
The cat was thinking of voting for that guy John McCat (no favoritism involved at all) 'cause he was interested in the security if Catsreal.
Listening to rebroadcast of Meet the Press: John McCain's math problem in overturning Obama's likely win.