December 25, 2012

Season’s Shootings

This weekend there were copy cat shootings to the Newtown shootings in Hollidaysburg, PA and Rochester, NY.  I know I said I wasn’t going to blog about the shootings but the extra incidents before the holiday prompted me.  They may or may not be connected.  I feel that this satire by Eddie Murphy and Joe […]

February 14, 2011

Ruth Institute – Making Marriage Cool (In the US but not Scandinavia)

The weekend before Valentine’s day I went to a talk sponsored by the Newman Center at the University of Pittsburgh titled “What is Marriage?”  by Jennifer Roback-Morse PhD.  She is an economist who founded the Ruth institute.  For those of you who who are not familiar this institute has nothing to do with Dr. Ruth […]