The Social Age

This is a horrible story. A Chinese blogger happened on a confrontation in the central Chinese province of Hubei between city inspectors and villagers protesting over the dumping of waste near their homes. He decided to film the event on his camera-phone. Fifty (yes, you read right, 50) municipal inspectors turned on him and beat […]

Can someone help me out here? I’ve been following the Presidential primaries and a thought occurred to me. How come the average national age of retirement is 65 years old and yet we allow people over 65 to run for President? I don’t really get this. John McCain is 71. Ronald Reagan took office at […]

I was walking through downtown Boston the other day and got annoyed as heck. There’s a lot of traffic in Boston — and we all know about the Boston drivers — but I realized, with great annoyance, that the reason the traffic was so bad is because of the pedestrians.
It seems that every pedestrian in […]

USAToday reported on a recent poll conducted by The First Amendment Center in which 55% of respondents said they believe the Constitution “establishes a Christian nation.”
Quoting directly from USAToday,
“More disturbing than the mistaken assumption of special status for one religion is a broader pattern evident in this poll, taken by a respected survey research firm […]

Every movement in society suffers from the ails of its great intentions, and The Social Age is no different. I occasionally run into stories that are so anti-social age, they make my skin crawl. This is one of them.
I was recently helping my friend Tanya look for an apartment here in Boston. Together we […]