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About Me

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My single most overriding obsession in this life is to perhaps leave this world in some significant way, a better place than I found it. There is nothing that recommends a parent as much as his or her judicious guardianship of the principles and values which are the foundation for the quality of life we have enjoyed in America over many generations. Unless we gage our actions and commitment through the prism of future ramifications, then we are shortchanging our children and their children's children. What decisions we make and what actions we take now will have far greater impact on future generations than many of us realize. So even though the challenges are not completely threatening in any person's particular circumstances, it does not absolve that individual from contributing in a way mindful of the world and it's sustainability in generations to comeOptimistic , Adventuresome and Curious, Intense and Diplomatic. Well aware that I am blessed with a life full of experiences that because they did not kill me they have caused me to become stronger. I appreciate how lucky I am now, and how incredibly lucky I have been in the past. I am always excited to know what's going to happen next.I will never relinquish my absolute fundamental faith that goodness, joy, pleasure and love are the essence of life. I am thrilled to be alive and will never surrender for myself or my loved ones the dreams we are meant to live.

My Interests

Parenting, Hanging out with my children, Motor Racing, specifically Formula One Grand Prix, Journalism, Politics, Entertainment as producer and consumer, History, Philosophy, Visual Arts, Languages, Travel,

I'd like to meet:

Napoleon. Alexander the Great, Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Mozart, Michaelangelo, Frank Costello (Wartime Cosa Nostra Capo) Winston Churchill, Jim Clark, (Grand Prix Legend) Ghandi, Thomas Jefferson, F.Scott Fitzgerald, Peter the Great, Ghengis Kahn, Mao, General Douglas MacArthur, Nelson Rockefeller, Albert Speer, Stalin, Any of Spanish Conquistadors, King Tut, Solomon, Moses, Moshe Dayan, General Giap(North Viet Namese General) Walter Cronkite, Lyndon Johnson, Vladimir Putin, and many, many more. oh, and Oscar Wilde Spanish King Juan Carlos, Muhamud Ali, Houdini, Rasputin, Cleopatra, Greta Garbo, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Franklin Roosevelt, Karl Marx, Rocky Marciano, Sugar Ray Robinson, Einstein, Otto von Bismark, Charlemagne, Peter O'Toole, Lawrence Olivier, Shakespeare, Richard Burton, Marlon Brando,

Music:

Bob Marley, Cold Play, David Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), Rolling Stones,Pink Floyd,Bob Dylan,The Who, Led Zepplin

Movies:

On the Waterfront, Casa Blanca, Gone With the Wind, Forrest Gump, Streetcar Named Desire, Ryan's Daughter, The Longest Day, The Wizaed of Oz, Requiem For a Heavyweight, Scent of a Woman, Donnie Brasco, Devil's Advocate, Stars and Bars, Camelot, Dr. Zhivago, Shampoo, Bonnie and Clyde, Under the Volcano, Last Picture Show, Sideways, The Graduate, Tootsie, Gerry McGuire

Television:

Most of the Programming on PBS, Saturday Night Live (In Certain Years) Kaptain Kangaroo (Long Ago and Far Away) 60 Minutes

Books:

Catcher in The Rye, Never Eat Alone, Great Gatsby, The Sun Also Rises, The Captains and The Kings, Tale of Two Cities

Heroes:

My Father, The Honorable Thomas J. Whelan, My uncle, Father William Whelan C.P.

My Blog

Charles Tilly, 78, Writer and a Social Scientist, Is Dead

Eileen Barroso/Columbia University, 2002 Charles Tilly May 2, 2008 Charles Tilly, 78, Writer and a Social Scientist, Is Dead By DOUGLAS MARTIN Charles Tilly, a social scientist who combined hist...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:54:00 PST

Today’s Papers

today's papers Recession Lessened By Arthur DelaneyPosted Saturday, May 3, 2008, at 5:44 A.M. E.T. The New York Times leads with word that the U.S. economy lost 20,000 jobs in April. The bad news i...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:48:00 PST

Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo

May 4, 2008 Microsoft Withdraws Its Bid for Yahoo By MIGUEL HELFT and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Microsoft said Saturday that it was abandoning its blockbuster bid to acquire Yahoo after it raised its offe...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 04 May 2008 02:39:00 PST

Fading Sounds of an Elegant Manhattan

Richard Perry/The New York Times Daryl Sherman in the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria, at the keyboard of a Steinway the hotel presented to Cole Porter in 1945, while he was living there. May 3, 2008 ...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 03 May 2008 01:43:00 PST

Today’s Papers

Size Matters By Daniel PolitiPosted Friday, May 2, 2008, at 6:06 A.M. The Washington Post leads with word that three federal agencies will announce today a set of new regulations on the credit card i...
Posted by Michael on Sat, 03 May 2008 09:48:00 PST

Today’s Papers

A Higher Toll By Daniel PolitiPosted Thursday, May 1, 2008, at 6:19 A.M. E.T. The Los Angeles Times leads with news that the death toll in Iraq in April reached its highest level since late last year...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 May 2008 07:31:00 PST

MAUREEN DOWD Election 2008

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times Maureen Dowd April 30, 2008 Op-Ed Columnist Praying and Preying By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON Barack Obama has spent his life, and campaign, trying not to be the Ang...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 May 2008 06:16:00 PST

Today’s Papers

Breaking Up Is Hard To Do By Daniel PolitiPosted Wednesday, April 30, 2008, at 6:24 A.M. E.T. The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal's world-wide newsbox lead with, while everyone else fronts...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 May 2008 11:37:00 PST

Low Spending Is Taking Toll on Economy

Damon Winter/The New York Times Shoppers at Jack's 99-Cent Store in Manhattan in March. The government said first-quarter consumer spending rose 1 percent. May 1, 2008 Low Spending Is Taking Toll o...
Posted by Michael on Thu, 01 May 2008 11:36:00 PST

Not-So-Free Ride

Paul Sahre April 20, 2008 Freakonomics Not-So-Free Ride By STEPHEN J. DUBNER and STEVEN D. LEVITT The trouble with negative externalities Americans drive too much. This isn't a political or moral ...
Posted by Michael on Sun, 20 Apr 2008 10:54:00 PST