Just back from seeing The Departed , latest movie by Scorcese. Will he finally win an Academy Award, for Best Picture? The Departed is ver...

Amira Hass is an Israeli journalist. She compiles below the list of restrictions on movement by all Palestinians living in the West Bank. T...

New Year's Eve in the hills of Puerto Rico... What did you do on New Year's Eve? usually, we don't even go out, just hang out at...

"Alas! You are the apple of my eye." "To get what you want you must commit yourself for sometime." "Beware the fury...

I like reading science fiction and fantasy. And I most like those books whose plots unabashedly offer a clash betwen good and evil, with the...

Do you ever barbecue food in a grill? We had barbecues all time, as I grew up in the suburbs of Long Island (Wyandanch, to be specific). Lot...

A bunch of years ago, I bought an 8 foot slate pool table, nothing fancy, but the real thing. We nestled it down in the basement (it really ...

I just came back from a couple of days in Orlando, Florida. Gave a talk at the Central Florida Oracle User Group and then a full day trainin...

Have you seen the TV Kart? They have them in the Dominick's store nearest our house. I think they are an abomination. Check them out at...

While we can get certainly delve into the details of the Hippocractic oath , I generally interpret the oath as a commitment by those who ch...

We have a friend, Ying, living with us. She was born in the Shan State of Burma and spent many years in Thailand (having fled the terrors of...

A friend of mine recently passed the following short essay on to me. I like it a lot and though I would share it with anyone who visits my b...

Oracle Open World (OOW) has become an awe-inspiring event: with the consolidation of annual conferences for Oracle, Siebel, Peoplesoft and J...

It's 1 Am and I sit at my laptop, typing away. Happily. I haven't been blogging much lately. I am rather insanely busy getting Quest...

This past week, I watched two creepy movies in which the main character was played by the same guy: Christian Bale. The movies were: America...

I have been so busy, my poor blog has been neglected and thousands of people have been deluging me with emails asking when my next very insi...

Abe, it's time to apologize to Kofi Annan or resign from your job. Abe Foxman is National Director and chairman of the Anti-Defamation L...

I was thinking the other day that I have written so many little utilities that I imagine many PL/SQL developers would appreciate. So I am go...

I am placing in my blog something I wrote several years ago. It is hidden away at www.stevenfeuerstein.com. 12/13/98 - I played Pitch, a...

I can still recall with shame that when I was young and much less mature, I rationalized PLO attacks on school buses. My argument went somet...