What Would you say to Barack and what will you do?
“If given the opportunity to write a letter to the President — a letter in which illness and impending death served a larger agenda– what would I say to him?” This question was answered by a wonderful...
View ArticleAnd Now, The Weather
Update: Accuweather reports that the humidity has dropped into the twenties, but it’s now an infernal 103 degrees. Whew. I guess things dry up when you’re in a danged kiln….. Update II: It’s after...
View ArticleCould Orwell Have The Last Laugh? – Ignoring Our Bright Future As It Flashes By
William Saletan who writes the Human Nature column for Slate said in a prescient article in NYT’s Sunday Book Review You: The Updated Owner’s Manual, “The most powerful revolutions of our age aren’t...
View ArticleTremendous Exponential Future vs. Incredible Selfish Stupidity
I took a serious look at the world’s future when I attended a masters degree course on the future in Hawaii in 1973 for a public administration degree. My classmates were mostly Vietnam veterans who...
View ArticleThe Tangled Web
As I’ve noted before, one of the neatest things about righty discourse is the way it so perfectly packages every fear and hatred, albeit haphazardly, into a baroquely nefarious conspiracy that, lo and...
View ArticleFeeling the Earth Move
I’m not entirely sure why, but the rash of earthquakes in the Pacific of late seem portentous to me; the Ring of Fire seems to be moving out of its recent quiescent phase into something a little more,...
View ArticleUnreality Bites
Each day lately that I look around at the news pouring forth, I see less to write about, since the miasma of unreality that obscures every discussion makes any comment seem both untimely and...
View ArticleThat’s the Ticket
It’s difficult to pinpoint when the Right figured out that lying was the path to victory, but in the years since Watergate, it’s become not just an expedient stalling tactic for difficult situations,...
View ArticleThe Terrorists Won
It is getting harder and harder to believe that September, 11, 2001 was, well, almost NINE YEARS AGO. To hear our politicians speak, you’d think it was last week. We’ve grown accustomed to onerous...
View ArticleTorts Are Fattening, You Know
For all their other faults, Republicans’ worst mistake often tends to be their timing. Bushes pere et fil started their wars too early for their electoral purposes, but since the winner lost and the...
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