Images of Beijing’s grandiose opening ceremony still hover in the back of my mind.  What a spectacle…
I learned from a recent article by Roger Ebert that the director of the opening ceremonies, Zhang Yimou, is also a successful film director.  His more recent films include Hero and House of the Flying Daggers.  Not only did [...]

A former schoolmate of mine, Hudson Spivey, has started an interesting new blog entitled, “Confronting Scarcity.”  As the title suggests, Hudson’s site is more focused on the causes and solutions to issues such as over-population and dwindling global food and water supplies rather than the more media saturated theme of global warming and carbon emissions.
Hudson [...]