A number of lethal traps hobble structural reforms to the failing Status Quo. NOTE: I apologize for the delays in responding to reader email; yesterday I was away from my desk all day and today our Internet service was down. While I often refer here to cycles, trends and feedback loops, there is another class of forces called traps which are self-explanatory: once entered, traps are difficult or impossible to escape due to their inherent (ontological) nature. While all the traps have conc

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MOVIES: ON THE BIG SCREEN BRUNO – SCHOOL OFFICIALS PUNISHED LOS ANGELES – The principal and the athletic director of Birmingham High School in Los Angeles are being punished because of a Bruno stunt. Sacha Baron Cohen posed in very little as Bruno with the school’s football players for GQ magazine. The exact punishment the school officials are getting isn’t being made public by the school district. The district’s superintendent says the district “allowed our students to be used.” He says

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By Lenn Thompson, Editor and Founder This is a quick (phone camera) picture of the dinner Nena cooked tonight. On the bottom is local, organic Swiss chard from our CSA share this week. Topping that chard is a pork chop that was crusted with rosemary, oregano and chives from our own garden, with some balsamic vinegar onions on top. What you can’t see is the CSA-sourced baby summer squash sauteed with garlic scapes and a little butter. So what does this all have to do with me mentioning being

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Kendra Wilkinson’s Wedding: Kendra Wilkinson and Hank Baskett got married this weekend, but the festivities began a week before. Kendra’s bachelorette party was planned by her former roommate Bridget Marquardt and took place at Guys and Dolls nightclub where Kendra wore a veil and skimpy dress . Bridget told Us Magazine, “Everything is falling into place. We have games planned. We are doing video messages as the girls walk in, we are going to play fun games, [and] of course presents. Sprin

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When Michelle Obama created an organic vegetable garden on the White House lawn earlier this year, the move was greeted with positive headlines and excitement among the food advocacy community. Here, we thought, was a First Lady who understood the importance of locally grown, whole and organic foods in her family’s diet. Unfortunately, something happened on the way to the realization of the First Lady’s good intentions. Recently the National Park Service discovered that the White House

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