Sunday, October 25, 2009

IT'S been a busy week. So, to catch up some, here's Jerome Groopman, author and professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, with some thoughts about wisdom and medicine.

WHAT? There's going to be "rules" for bloggers?

OK, so we're staying put more ... not moving around the country as much. Good thing, right? Newsweek seems to think so.

WHAT is Frank Rich trying to say here? That there's no such thing as "news" on any of the so-called national broadcast media? If so, he's pretty much right. A quotation:

Richard Heene (the "balloon boy" dad) is the inevitable product of this reigning culture, where “news,” “reality” television and reality itself are hopelessly scrambled and the warp-speed imperatives of cable-Internet competition allow no time for fact checking. Norman Lear, about the only prominent American to express any empathy for little Falcon’s father, vented on The Huffington Post, calling out CNN, MSNBC, Fox, NBC, ABC and CBS alike for their role in “creating a climate that mistakes entertainment for news.” This climate, he argued, “all but seduces a Richard and Mayumi Heene into believing they are — even if what they dream up to qualify is a hoax — entitled to their 15 minutes.”

MEANWHILE, I need to photograph some more art to post.