Author Archives: Michaela

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About Michaela

I am a wanderer and a wonderer, like you are. I love our journey and to walk in the company of friends – to learn, experience, share, laugh, cry and above all I simply love this marvelous, magical, mysterious life. I have no plan (cannot believe I am saying this) and my only intention is to be truthful to myself and others.

Look on my works….

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Michaela

By George Galloway “Look on my works, ye mighty; and despair!” So said the base of the statue of Ozymandias of Egypt – Ramasses the Great, Pharaoh of the 19th Dynasty of Ancient Egypt – discovered deep under the desert sands … Continue reading →

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Politics and the Media

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Michaela

2 articles from the recent New Yorker on the US Budget crisis and responsibility & Rupert Murdoch’s tabloids & responsibility Empty Wallets / Early Birds

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Getting to Crazy

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Michaela

By Paul Krugman There aren’t many positive aspects to the looming possibility of a U.S. debt default. But there has been, I have to admit, an element of comic relief — of the black-humor variety — in the spectacle of … Continue reading →

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Ignorance

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Michaela

By Massimo Pigliucci  Ignorance is the root of all evil, according to Plato, who also famously gave us a still-current definition of its opposite: knowledge. For Plato, knowledge is “justified true belief”. That definition is worthy of consideration as we reflect … Continue reading →

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A Clash of Generations

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Michaela

By Thomas L. Friedman ATHENS I realize that I should be in Washington watching the debt drama there, but I’ve opted instead to be in Greece to observe the off-Broadway version. There are a lot of things about this global … Continue reading →

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On being wrong

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Michaela
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We’re spent

Posted on July 17, 2011 by Michaela

By David Leonhard THERE is no shortage of explanations for the economy’s maddening inability to leave behind the Great Recession and start adding large numbers of jobs: The deficit is too big. The stimulus was flawed. China is overtaking us. … Continue reading →

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Debt and default

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Michaela

A sea of money….

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Here Today

Posted on July 16, 2011 by Michaela

Paul Mc Cartney Live at the Yankee Stadium, The Bronx, NY

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About success and failure

Posted on July 15, 2011 by Michaela

Alain de Botton examines our ideas of success and failure — and questions the assumptions underlying these two judgments. Is success always earned? Is failure? He makes an eloquent, witty case to move beyond snobbery to find true pleasure in … Continue reading →

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