This, Blogger™ tells me, shall be my 166th post. It is a cruel thing, returning to a city on the edge of a heat wave, having spent the fullness of a week beneath fairer skies and witness to the Atlantic's infinite recitation upon the shore of a barrier island. Fire, was the island. (Fair Harbor… Continue reading 166. Return
challenges, and opportunities. The fishes' tank water is cloudy, and has been so for a couple of weeks now. Today it appears to be a little better, but I have yet to unravel the mystery of what's causing it. Lately viewing: BBC Brain Story documentary series PBS Guns, Germs and Steel Lately reading: The Alientist,… Continue reading forms & structures
In the introduction to his book "How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime", Sidney Blumenthal recalls one of Bush's absurd recurring statements made during election campaigning: "I'm a uniter, not a divider". Sadly, that promise has been kept-- by way of his ability to UNITE the rest of the world in its feelings of… Continue reading “uniter”
This article by Garrison Keillor on Salon.com is brilliant. I know he's one of those people you tend to love or hate, but this article is brilliant either way. (Article "America Eats Its Young") Autumn has been making a sneak preview recently in these boroughs of brownstones. Oh, and i may have lied about the… Continue reading One Solution…
The Rebel Sell
Holycrap- this excerpt from an address given by Bill Moyers is a must-read. A scary one, because of the realities pointed out (which should be so obvious, but seem only to be to a few), but brilliant and to the point. Sorry it's all been just links of late, but things have been busy 'round… Continue reading Moyers does it again.
says it.
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Note: The documentary The Corporation should be required viewing for every citizen --oops, pardon my outmoded use of language-- every Consumer™ of the modern world.
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