Michael Phillips

Blog Archive

December 2002 to August 2003

 

December

12/12/02 Why create a blog?

12/13/02 Am I morally responsible?

12/14/02 Answer: You are the only one.

12/15/02 A sybiosis no one could have seen.

12/18/02 Homeless, Jews and Lesbians.

12/20/02 Working or playing on the computer?

12/21/02 Split United vertically.

12/22/02 Hugs, and the failure of democratic management

12/28/02 Review of Jerry Z. Muller's: The Mind and the Market

12/29/02 :11:43 The 1990's boom. Not obvious

12/29/02 :11:45 More on United: Punishing the innocent

12/29/02 :11:48 Politics, Taxes and Smoking in Bars

 

January

1/01/03 Draw the line at Hummer

01/02/03:12:02 Official Holiday Declaration

01/02/03:12:57 Simple Living Requests

01/03/03:12:30 Simple Living Predictor

01/03/03:1:50 Anti-American Ghosts

01/04/03 NPR population explosion nonsense

01/05/03:1:00 Sentimental diner

01/05/03:5:50 Colorado River Water to California is Cut

01/08/03 New Yorker Platitudes

01/11/03 New York Times health report is a sad journalistic example.

01/13/03 Not All Peaceniks Here.

01/14/03 What the Japanese Read.

01/18/03 Can I Improve Greens-to-Go?

01/18/03 Testimony at the CPUC. Executives Beware

01/22/03: 12:01 Class Warfare is Good

01/22/03:12:07 Educational Website Could Be Great Fun

01/22/03:12:07 Worldwide Beit Din

01/22/03:12:08 Heaven-O and San Francisco Elected Officials

01/24/03 Politics in San Francisco

01/24/03 Politics in San Francisco

01/29/03;10:00 Googling

01/29/03; 10:10 40 years and still bad

01/29/03; 10:20 Joined at the head and the wallet

01/31/03 Neologism: lefty fundamentalist

February

02/02/03 "Its a good thing"

02/07/03;5:05 Question?

02/07/03; 5:10 Is this part of a morality play?

02/07/03; 5:15 The girls saw the barking, frolicking seals at Pier 39.

02/07/03: 5:20 Pigs

02/09/03: 9:10 The real trouble on the horizon

02/09/03: 9:15 Friends of friends: wrong

02/09/03: 9:20 Long relationships

02/09/03: 9:24 Ernst & Young

02/09/03: 9:30 Big news

02/09/03: 9:35 If I'd known

02/12/03: 9:15 Poetic morality

02/12/03: 9:35 Black and White

02/13/03: 9:35 Thinking ahead

02/13/03: 9:50 Cause of the Columbia crash

02/15/03: 7:50 State of the City.

02/21/03: 13:20 Peace activist

02/21/03: 15:30 I was wrong

02/21/03: 12:30 Japanese foreign affairs

02/21/03: 13:10 Congress is asking for trouble

02/27/03 TV news says Bay Bridge traffic is declining

March

03/12/03 AirTrain Joy Ride

03/12/03 Sontag et al

03/12/03 Peter Berger

03/12/03 Social Security, Medicare and Kauai

03/12/03 Authenticity

03/12/03 Professional Fish

03/12/03 Raising San Francisco

03/12/03 New Columns

03/12/03 Delete Nightmare

03/17/03 Getting old, getting conservative

 03/18/03 Clothing: a matter of life or death

03/24/03 This past week saw the triumph of two ideas

03/25/03 An email with a novel conspiracy theory

03/27/03 Celebrate the big six

03/29/03 The failure of the peace movement

03/30/03 Association of Democratic Nations

April

04/1/03 Hippies and Lefty Fundamentalists not the same.

04/2/03 Two petty frustrations

04/3/03 Japan Bust?

04/5/03 The economic future

04/6/03 Sleep

04/7/03-3:50 Winning the battle of ideas

04/7/03-3:55 Israeli flag in front of the house

04/7/03- 4:15 Black power in the U.S.

04/9/03 Hungarian syndrome

04/10/03- 4:15 Bleak future

04/10/03- 4:25 Armchair corporal

04/12/03- 4:00 Anti-American march in San Francisco

04/10/03- 4:25 Local toppling action

04/14/03- 4:25 The Play Chutzpah

04/14/03- 5:25 McCarthy-like purge of our universities

04/14/03- 6:15 A difficult moral and anthropological question

04/16/03- 4:15 Global-gobble-ization

04/16/03- 5:15 What are they looking at?

04/20/03- 5:05 No theory

04/20/03- 5:15 Have you seen it?

04/22/03- 11:15 Executive compensation

04/22/03- 11:30 Quiz

04/22/03- 12:15 How weird?

04/24/03- 12:11 Too bad it failed

04/22/03- 12:15 Deep throat

04/25/03 Suspense

04/26/03 Tomatoes

04/3003 Juvenon -- commendable business

May

05/1/03; 20:00 Is the sky still falling?

05/2/03 Addendum

05/2/03 Party migration

05/6/03-18:15 Take me off your list

05/6/03- 19:00 My doctor

05/6/03-19:30 Farmer's Market

05/7/03-20:00 Time for Castro

05/7/03-20:30 A big political realignment is going on in America.

05/7/03-21:00 From one to hundreds

05/8/03-10:30 More on Prager

05/8/03-11:00 A new gasoline tax

05/11/03-16:00 No one seems to have mentioned

05/11/03-17:00 Second Struggle

05/15/03 Updates:

05/15/03 Friend's blog

05/21/03; 12:00 Art Cars

05/21/03; 12:20 Cuba

05/22/03; 16:00 Kindness of commerce

05/22/03; 16:30 Business

05/23/03 Tax cut

05/24/03 For the Japanese

05/28/03 - 18:15 Davis recall

05/28/03 - 18:45 Unions

June

06/1/03 - 14:00 There is another great San Francisco creation.

06/1/03 - 15:30 I want to be appreciated for the following

06/1/03 - 16:00 Thinking Problem

06/1/03 - 16:30 Bye Coastal

06/3/03 Comments from readers

06/5/03 Glad I didn't publish

06/6/03 More comments

06//03-11:00 Envy

06/7/03-11:30 Hamas vs Abbas

06/7/03-11:45 Lott, Raines, Ashcroft

06/7/03-12:30 Homeless ingenuity

06/08/03 Nuts

06/08/03-13:00 Book Review

06/08/03- 13:40 "The next election hinges on the economy"

06/10/03- 9:40 Street Art

06/14/03 This might disturb you

06/18/03- 17:15 No trade boycotts

06/18/03- 17:30 My view on the Lilla explanation

06/18/03- 18:00 Brilliant work

06/18/03- 18:30 Sylvia made it official

06/22/03- 8:00 Historic

06/22/03- 8:10 Movie: Capturing the Friedman's

06/22/03- 8:30 Local scene

06/26/03- 1530 Blocking Spam

06/26/03- 14:30 The Coincidental Invention issue came up recently

06/28/03 Party change in the U.S.

06/29/03 - 16:00 Old America and New America

06/29/03- 18:45 Idea for a debate

July

7/2/03 Tokyo for seven weeks

7/7/03 Commerce has some flaws

7/14/03 International talks

7/20/03 All Jews are Israelis

7/20/03 Sort of business, but not really business.

7/22/03 Public Intellectuals

7/22/03 Starbucks

7/22/03 Homeless enterprise

7/23/03 Tokyo Report

7/23/03 Gray Davis and Willie Brown

7/24/03 Herb Allen's gathering

7/25/03 Technological Species

7/26/03 California B- to D-

7/29/03 Book Review: Dutch Republic

August

08/5/03 The subject of privacy

08/6/03 Gini says

08/7/03 Today's answer

08/10/03 Class in America

8/19/03 Political Debate

8/19/03 Divergence in telecom

8/19/03 Future Lifespan

8/19/03 Peter Schwartz wrong,

8/19/03 CoMRoT

8/19/03 MsBlast.exe