Michael Phillips
Blog Archive
December 2002 to August 2003
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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