Since WHEN does a single issue become morally obligatory against all OTHER claims?

The day so far has been VERY good: my work is moving along VERY well.

I'll be at "An Inconvenient Food at Emmanuel College" until around 9 pm this evening, then home. Looks like MOST US stocks are UP, UP, AWAY!

My retirement funds have been weathering well the economic meltdown, until today when everything else when up, then they plummeted 4.4-5.5%.

Making connections for plant-based diets, since 1977

I'm in the LMA Salt Mines "doing ethics" all week through Saturday evening, when I'll be celebrating animal rights.

I've had a very good day today. I've accomplished much; I've played; and a loved one has found me again. Now, home to the cat(s).

Happy man! I'm finding journal articles and researcher contacts in nothing flat!

Happy man!

much relieved, though I probably shouldn't be. Oh, my!

much relieved

3 last days in bioethics, social medicine, and global health in Longwood Medical Area, then celebrate book by Norm Daniels, then CA's Prop 2

watched history of George HW Bush/Dan Quayle v Mike Dukakis/Paul McCartney

Watching history of George HW Bush/Dan Quayle v Mike Dukakis/Paul McCartney

Between noisy tenant UPSTAIRS pounding around on the floor and a noisy exerciser on the floor below.

"Getting caught up" at home on Veterans' Day, listening to NPR's analysis of our social issues with the US military.

Resting at home on Veterans' Day. There have been some "soft terminations" - yet again. Oh, my. Do we believe that?

Hope2work ALL day on 2009 bioethics summer intensive course: Ethical Issues in International Health Research www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/.

Hope2work ALL day on 2009 bioethics summer intensive course: Ethical Issues in International Health Research www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/

is at BVS program this afternoon and evening @Grasshopper re: vegetable-oil-powered personal vehicles

LinkedIn contacts nearing 1000 and Facebook friends nearing 2250; please 'friend' me and link with me everywhere! Yes, EVERYWHERE !!

LinkedIn contacts nearing 1000 and Facebook friends nearing 2250.

BVS this afternoon (4pm) +evening focuses on vegetable-oil-powered transportation, followed by vegan buffet @Allston-Brighton's Grasshopper.

Watching Sunday morning "talking heads" political talk shows: this week, Fox, Meet the Press, Teen News, etc. Then BVS re: vegetable-oil car

Saturday's monthly all-vegan day at My Thai in Brookline was great: Vegan Meetup, Vegan Toastmasters, BVA (Boston Vegan Assn). Get on board

Saturday is the monthly all-vegan day at My Thai in Brookline: Vegan Meetup, Toastmasters, BVA

Watching my 'portfolios' really IS 'scary'

Hitting the hay -- "To everything there is a season, and a time for everything under heaven." Yawn! It's not boring; it's the hours.

Saturday is the monthly all-vegan day at My Thai in Brookline: Vegan Meetup, Toastmasters, BVA

There's NO ONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD online right now I need to chat with tonight, so I'm powering down, doing the news, then resting (zzzzzz)

Ther's NO ONE IN THE WHOLE WORLD online right now that I need to chat with tonight, so I'm powering down, doing the news, and resting (zzzz)

All day Saturday at My Thai in Brookline MA is the monthly all-vegan day, from 11:30 am to 7:30 pm. I'll be there, meeting new folks etc.

Custodian locked me out of my own office; spoke with guards, who let me in, and supervisor, who will speak with custodian about duties.

Plugging the cable into my laptop seems to have resolved my wifi connection, so I could keep my IM commitments to the world. Why is that?

I've "put in" an INCREDIBLY CREDIBLE day in Harvard's Longwood Medical Area; now I'm going home. Ready: ZZZZZZ

Awesome how I can work intensely for 8 hours for 6 hours pay

Thinking Terry Gross SHOULD be talking about Humane California and doing similiar referenda in all the other US states.

It's a rainy day outside; correspondence & filing indoors - massive amounts of materials should be put into a meaningful semblance of order.

Do we speak of the “vale of tears” or the “veil of tears”?

Rainy day outside; filing indoors - massive amounts of materials should be put into a meaningful semblance of "order"

Did MUCH today. YOU know what 'MUCH' is... That's EXACTLY what I DID today...!

Got all my publications; now cleaning up then going home - VERY tired after all that hullaballoo last night about Obama.

Heading over to Countway Medical Library for six (6) more articles in psychiatry and ethics, which cost up to $51 each, unless from Countway

McCain's gracious concession. Watch California Prop 2 (farm animals) as polls closed;Mass Prop 3 (greyhounds), which easily passed by ~56%.

Watching John McCain's concession speech!

Watching John McCain's concession speech!

Watching California Prop #3 (farm animals) as polls closed, and Massachusetts Prop # 3 (greyhounds), which easily passed by ~56%.

Watching California Prop #3 (farm animals) and Massachusetts Prop # 3 (greyhounds), which we are confident has passed.

Watching California Prop #3 and Massachusetts Prop # 3

Thinking of going to sleep to avoid anxiety EXCEPT this TV watchnight explains how elections & polling work and why voters acted as they did

Stocks inched up, so I think that's because the markets expect an Obama victory.

Working on the 2009 EIIHR website at http://www.HSPH.Harvard.edu/bioethics/ (that's CURRENTLY the OLD site for 2006-2008). It NEEDS work...

Heading to the Countway Medical Library at HMS, across the LMA Quad, enjoying the 'up' stock market. Ha!

Checking out how often I've been cited in books in print, since my vegan friend, Lev of Google, has been working on Google Book Search!

Enjoying Saturday Night Live's 2008 Presidential Bash on NBC. How about I going to get to sleep in time to be wide awake by 6 am?

Enjoying Saturday Night Live's 2008 Presidential Bash on NBC. How about I going to get to sleep in time to be wide awake by 6 am?

Hoping to get EXTRA sleep tonight so I can vote as EARLY as possible Tuesday morning and STILL be at work in LMA by 9 am. WHEW!

Revised 2009 bioethics website nearly done for summer course; dong marketing matls, teaching schedule, applications; processing travel costs

The number of my Facebook 'friends' (are you a 'friend'?) approaches 2200 and LinkedIn contacts is 965. There's math in everything !

The number of his Facebook 'friends' (are you a 'friend'?) approaches 2200. There's math in everything.

Puzzling why, despite much animal protectionist support in US (including McCain), there's much overt oppression of wildlife & food animals.

Listening to rebroadcast of today's "Meet the Press": John McCain's math problem in overturning Obama's likely win.

The cat was thinking of voting for that guy John McCat (no favoritism involved at all) 'cause he was interested in the security if Catsreal.

Listening to rebroadcast of Meet the Press: John McCain's math problem in overturning Obama's likely win.

Listening to African ex-Marxist revolutionary talk about his conversion to Christianity.

Al Willis posted GREAT BVFF photos to BrightKite.com

The Boston Vegetarian Food Fest today was awesome...!! on World Vegan Day today - November 1st

Boston Vegetarian Food Festival 10am-6pm Sat 11/1 www.BostonVeg.org/foodfest - vendors begin giving away vegan food samples ~8:30 am

Preparing 4 Boston Vegetarian Food Festival Saturday 10-6 (Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Ctr Roxbury Crossing) after hectic workweek in LMA

Maynard is working on the history of a Kentucky prison where human subject research was conducted decades ago.

Working on ethics paper related to abuses of privilege and COI in complex institutions.

Synchronizing digital photos between home computer, laptop, and 2 office computers (for blogging & archiving)

Glad the cat isn't dying, my family members are getting healthier, and I've met some great people in American History through HMS & HSPH

Pleased to learn that our oldest cat may NOT be dying after all and may only need an IV.

Setting aside my HUGE list of personal reminders top focus entirely on work - which is interesting, timely, and VERY important!

Sleep is precious! YAWN !!

The rate of stock decline for some has declined, but stocks continue to lose value.

hiding my PERSONAL details, but sharing my PUBLIC LIFE. The Dow is NOT been kind to us default capitalists.

Great Sadness - then we knuckle down to continue the work

Preparing for a Monday morning Harvard memorial service for President Carter's Surgeon General, Dr. Julius B. Richmond, then 6-7 days diligent work in Harvard's Longwood Medical Area.

Preparing for a Monday morning Harvard memorial service for President Carter's Surgeon General, Dr. Julius B. Richmond, then 6-7 days diligent work in Harvard's Longwood Medical Area.

Sitting on the front porch enjoying the autumnj evening, blogging and doing e-mail, reminiscing.

Topped 950 LinkedIn contacts today, went OVER 2130 Facebook friends, and my blog has been over a million readers for WEEKS now! Stocks down.

Playing with iGoogle's MusicILike app

I am preparing for a public future FAR worse than we ought to be enjoying in face of homo sapiens acting out.

Planning for a weekend of work: YOW !

Maynard is working furiously on what remains from Thursday at HMS.

Chores before Al Gore speaks at Harvard

So much for my special blog entry. Think fast.

Oh, I have a blog entry due at a commercial health-related blogging portal.

Finishing up after working all day in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School

thinking about the Alternate Healthy Eating Index (AHEI)

"5 vegetables and 4 fruits" is what I tell folks who ask me what a vegan ought to eat

Blog title...

All of those who knew John Roman and George Engel and those not lucky enough to meet them, are indebted to the authors of this absolutely splendid book for bringing alive an experiment in psychiatry that succeeded so well and proved such a shining example for our field and for medical education. This book is a happy illustration of what scholarship and literary skill can contribute to the understanding of how to care for our patients and how to teach students to improve their skills.

Sleep-dependent memory processing, Harvard Review of Psychiatry 2008;15(5):287

Maynard is spending the rest of evening doing bioethics work in FXB for HSPH, then going home to enjoy SNL's fun-poking at the candidates.

PickensPlan.com AFTER the Presidential Debate

PickensPlan.com - you could contribute to discussion

PickensPlan.com - you could contribute to discussion

PickensPlan.com - you could contribute to discussion

Sarah Palin did very well this evening and handled Ifill's 'gay' question well and responsibly., and Biden-Obama didn't cave in to their party's handlers in ways that would compromise their own moral beliefs.

Sarah Palin did very well this evening and handled Ifill's 'gay' question well and responsibly., and Biden-Obama didn't cave in to their party's handlers in ways that would compromise their own moral beliefs.