Foster Genuine Culture

Dear reader. I have moved my wordpress blog to my main web address. If you are subscribing using feedburner, you will not notice a thing, since I have moved my feed. You will automatically receive the posts from the new site. Please take a look at the new site. I am quite pleased with it. […]

This video by Slate editor Emily Bazelon is a little guide for parents who are wondering how to talk to your kids about sex. I wish they could have found someone a little more comfortable with the topic. Bazelon buys into the distinction between being sexual and being innocent. Hogwash, is all I can say. […]

Katya Andresen writes that marketing needs to spur someone into action. Creating a message that doesn’t ask receivers to act in a particular way is rather pointless. This is huge, and one of the most important lessons one can take from her Nonprofit Marketing Blog (and she has many lessons to teach).
Don’t ever settle for […]

I am deeply grateful to Brad Shorr for his review of the Cluetrain Manifesto. Like Brad, I acknowledge the importance of the Cluetrain message. Indeed, they have forgotten more about the internet than I will ever know. Yet, if the internet is about conversation, than in the conversation we can choose to make a contribution. […]

More than 100 organizations called for a National AIDS Strategy. After all these years in the epidemic we still don’t have one and the number of people that are being infected every year is not going down. Having given up on Bush, and who hasn’t, they call
AIDS is a national crisis. The next President of […]

I participated in a Tips & Tricks blog writing project. There were 122 entries. Here they are. If you can live by these tricks, I am sure that your life will be fulfilled . However, I suggest picking one at a time. If you want to turn the tip into a new habit that is. […]

The Southern Strategy pushed the Republicans in power during the Reagan era by playing on racist fears in the south while simultaneously disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of African Americans voters. A New Southern Strategy now silences the majority of Americans. It was created by Karl Rove and propelled Bush to victory in 2004. Craig had […]

Problegger Darren Rowse asked some days ago, if English is your second language, in what language do you blog? Well, as you can see, I write in English. I have lived in the US for fourteen years, so that is a matter of course. But you know, there will always certain things, feelings that I […]

I was reading yet another article in the New York Times about the Episcopal/Anglican Church and their trouble with accepting Bishop Gene Robinson as one of their own. It fills me with tears to read how the world Anglicans and many Episcopalians in the US have responded to his service as Bishop of New Hampshire. […]

I am sorry for the post this morning. I was getting so fed up. But it appears that all is back to normal. My service provider was trying to protect me or themselves from a possible DDOS attack. Kind of them. Anyway. I lost some subscribers through all this drama. I hope you will come […]

Feedburner was no longer serving me. I see many blogs on the web working well with the service, but I had to say goodbye to them. My feeds weren’t updating any longer, the couldn’t access my feed, which validates quite well. So, no more feedburner for me. I apologize to all those who subscribed to […]

One of the arguments to stay in Iraq is to ensure political stability. The current Iraqi government is clearly not creating political stability. Typically we assume incompetence or overwhelming circumstances for the lack of political progress. But another reason should be considered.
As soon as a modicum of political progress has been achieved, window dressed as […]