Phil Butler Unplugged

The 2008 Olympics are scheduled to kick off in August, and many are concerned over air quality issues in Beijing. Officials there have set up air quality monitors in a quasi-effort to determine if the skies can “officially” be termed – blue. The smog in Beijing is notoriously unhealthy according to the World [...]

I strolled over to ReadWriteWeb to see what Richard and the gang were up to, and behold they broke out the crystal ball before New Year! As usual the writers at RWW share some insightful and interesting predictions for 2008. I thought I should take the opportunity to share some of these and perhaps add [...]

I wanted to take this opportunity to apologize for the sparse postings – I have been traveling and fairly literally “unplugged” since arriving in Germany last week. This is also an opportune time to share some of the spirit of the season with all of you too – and most appropriately Christmas from Germany.
My visit [...]

We have been hearing about Barry Bonds and his alleged steroid use for some time now, isn’t it getting sticky in sport these days? Today I was reading a story about the literally dozens of baseball players being investigated in light of the “Mitchell Report”.
Senator George Mitchell gave a report that lambasted MLB owners [...]

I don’t watch much TV these days, but I was passing the tube when I noticed Al Gore giving his acceptance speech for winning the Nobel Prize for “An Inconvenient Truth”, so I took some moments to give a listen. I expect most of us have seen the film, and of course experienced the discourse [...]