Like many Americans, I have been both fascinated and repulsed by the recent discussion about so-called "pink slime" — low-cost, ammonia-treated beef trimmings that are used in making some hamburger patties.
In the June 5 Arts & Leisure section the chief film critics of The Times, Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, defended such films, adding to a vigorous, sometimes fractious discussion about so-called boring and slow films that is still continuing, lighting up the blogosphere and beyond, and inspiring hundreds of readers' comments.
Recently, at a forum in Baltimore, he shared a stage with the psychologist Daniel Kahneman — who won a Nobel Prize for his work in behavioral economics — and the two had a long discussion about so-called "inattentional blindness," the phenomenon of focussing so intently on a single task that one fails to notice things in plain sight.
I mean we have these ethical discussions about so many issues now, treatment and this, that, and all the rest of that, so where do we, where does the deception stop then?
I still always try to tune in to WNYC-AM whenever Leonard Lopate has a food guest on "New York and Company," because the discussion is about so much more than simple sustenance.
There has been little discussion about issues so far, though Mr. Altschuler is trying to break through with a positive message to voters who are worried about the moribund economy that he created 700 jobs as a business owner.
David Cameron has called on British couples to have a frank discussion about pornography, so that they can decide what to do when he enforces his magical online porn-block.
But I have smoked with my dad before and enjoyed some great chats (the last an interminable discussion about sandwiches – so the conversational bar wasn't set too high).
And Lily Cole, well, rather unjustly, she somehow became the visual symbol for any discussion about anorexia, so citing her as an icon of fabulous fashionability became a little bit tricky.
At first, I'd ask what she wanted each morning, but she'd never know: the last thing someone with morning sickness wants is a discussion about food, so I had to wing it.
Labour immigration spokesman David Hanson said: "Labour has long called for a calm and rational discussion about immigration, so we welcome Mark Field's opposition to the shrill and ineffective approach adopted by their own Government".
