http://iswhatido.org like it says Wed, 14 May 2008 21:00:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alex and his old friend Adam Davidson collaborated on the story that took up all of This American Life last weekend, and I'm just bursting with pride. I've never heard such a complicated situation—America's mortgage crisis morphing into a global credit crisis—explained so clearly and with such remarkable focus on ... http://iswhatido.org/2008/05/14/the-giant-pool-of-money/ We went for a walk in Spring Grove Cemetary yesterday. The afternoon was a little chilly and overcast, and we probably missed the height of the Spring display by about a week, but it was still beautiful. As it turned out, we parked our car, very much by accident, by ... http://iswhatido.org/2008/04/28/spring-grove/ Here are a few pix I've taken on my walk home from the Coffee Emporium the past few mornings. It's been a particularly glorious Spring in Cincinnati. If you'd like one of these images for your desktop wallpaper, just click on it, and the image will load at original size ... http://iswhatido.org/2008/04/19/spring-2/ I turned 71 yesterday. And I started on a project that I've been contemplating for a while. I'm going to try to take at least one photograph each day and post it here. If I wind up taking more than one, I'll try to pick the best or most interesting. ... http://iswhatido.org/2007/12/29/small-world/ Source: Orcinus Sara Robinson tosses out what I think is a great idea: a Liberal Pride Parade, on the model of the Gay Pride Parades that are now held around the world and have become, in many cities, civic events that cut across gender divides, or even, in some cases, significant ... http://iswhatido.org/2007/02/25/i-love-a-parade/ An incredibly powerful post by Arthur Silber weaves together a bunch of narratives - about Iraq, about Tim Hardaway, about liberals and conservatives, about freaks and normals, and delivers an emotionally wrenching and totally convincing revelation about who I am, who he is, and who those others are whom I ... http://iswhatido.org/2007/02/17/once-upon-a-time-and-again-and-again-and-again/ Our friend David Shenk has a new blog which will feed into the book he's writing on genius. The blog is good; I think David has found a subject that engages his own genius with more immediacy than the subjects of his previous books, on chess, and Alzheimer's Disease, and ... http://iswhatido.org/2007/02/01/intelligent-and-smart/ "...and would not stay for an answer."Francis Bacon Some folks over at ScienceBlogs are conducting a web experiment, dealing with "viral marketing". I'm not sure I understand it, but I'm willing to play along. So, here you will find truth. Go for it. http://iswhatido.org/2007/01/26/what-is-truth-said-jesting-pilate/ On this 33rd anniversary of Roe vs. Wade, I thought I'd republish a meditation that I wrote many years ago (the same meditation is published at manygods.org). Many good people hold that abortion is an act that is filled with sin. It may be so. Any act may be filled with ... http://iswhatido.org/2007/01/22/sadness-and-sina-meditation-on-abortion/ Source: Welcome to The Barna Group! The Barna Group seems to be a Christian research organization. They've done a study of people who identify themselves as "evangelicals"; the demographics and attitudes of that group were compared with those of people who revealed themselves as evangelicals on a nine-point scale that the ... http://iswhatido.org/2007/01/22/depends-on-whos-counting/