- March 1, 2008Earlier I wrote about The Perils of Perfectionism, in which I made the case for just getting it done with…
- February 20, 2008This month's Giving Carnival—discussed here previously—asks why people give and what motivates giving. I have no idea and suspect no…
- February 17, 2008Reporters have been writing about the death of small family farm since at least the Great Depression, and governmental efforts…
- February 12, 2008Last night I was reading Madame Bovary and found another example of the cultural phenomenon I described in The Wonderful…
- February 10, 2008In Umberto Eco's fabulous The Name of the Rose, Adso of Melk says that "In the past men were handsome…
- February 4, 2008It's not unusual for an RFP to ask how community feedback was incorporated into the design of a project, and…
- January 27, 2008I've written about stylistically bad language from government RFPs, but more common than the outright bad is the silly, the…
- January 23, 2008"New Voices Of Philanthropy"* is running an occasional series in which they invite bloggers involved in the nonprofit world to…
- January 22, 2008I noted earlier in Zombie Funding that programs can dwindle from a huge amount of available money to virtually nothing,…
- January 16, 2008In The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, Alex Ross says: Studio heads were confident that Stravinsky's name…
