Monthly Archives: January 2009

Pizzigati’s Wake Up Call

Posted on January 31, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

When Sam Pizzigati’s Greed and Good: Understanding and Overcoming the Inequality That Limits Our Lives was first published in 2004, the audience that the book found might well have been considered “The Choir.”  There were some rumblings in the distance … Continue reading →

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Rabbit Remembered

Posted on January 27, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

John Updike (1932-2009) John Updike’s Life and Work from Salon © 2009 – 2011, Fred Bubbers. All rights reserved.

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An Old Building and a New Paradigm

Posted on January 24, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

On an unseasonably warm afternoon in early December of 1982, I was pounding the pavement in Manhattan, trying to find my first job after graduating from college the previous spring.  I had a fresh haircut, my shirt collar itched me, … Continue reading →

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The Corinthian Connection

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

First Corinthians was referenced in at least two instances today.  First, President Obama referenced it directly when he said, “We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things.“  Then, … Continue reading →

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The Literate President

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Fred Bubbers

Mr. Obama has said that he wrote “very bad poetry” in college and his biographer David Mendell suggests that he once “harbored some thoughts of writing fiction as an avocation.” For that matter, “Dreams From My Father” evinces an instinctive … Continue reading →

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