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Ho Ho Ho
Photo by Travis Swicegood, via Flickr I’ve been listening to a radio station that’s playing a good number of the pop and rock versions of Christmas carols, the kind that were all the rage on the AM...
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On the Dangers of Hollow Ways
A Hollow Way It’s a new year, bless us, a time to think about doing things differently. Resolutions and all that. I was thinking about this when I came across a reference by writer Jim Harrison to...
View ArticleThe Perils of Media Parallax
{!hitembed ID=”hitembed_1″ width=”300″ height=”200″ align=”right” !} It is by now a commonplace to note that the world as presented to us by various media is not the world of flesh, blood, earth, fire,...
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Us Versus the Volcano
I wish we could require all Americans – at least all decision-makers – to read Joseph Stiglitz’s new essay in the New York Times. Inequality is strangling us economically, politically, socially, he...
View ArticleRevisionairies and Tooth Fairies
{!hitembed ID=”hitembed_1″ width=”350″ height=”200″ align=”right” !} PBS last week aired “The Revisionaries,” a remarkable documentary about the hard-right, creationist Christian takeover of the Texas...
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Houses of Cards
House of Cards, the Netflix original series, just might be the best of a genre that ought to be called the “political sleezie.” Wildly entertaining, it stars Kevin Spacey as Congressman Frank Underwood...
View ArticleLife Is a Carnival
{!hitembed ID=”hitembed_1″ width=”350″ height=”250″ align=”right” !} “We’re all in the same boat ready to float off the edge of the world.” The Band “Life is a carnival,” sang The Band, and I imagine...
View ArticleVoting Rights, Democracy, and the “Dignity of Man”
{!hitembed ID=”hitembed_1″ width=”350″ height=”250″ align=”right” !} President Lyndon Johnson opened his remarks to Congress urging passage of the Voting Rights Act with these words: I speak tonight...
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Politics, Coonskin Caps, and the Stories That We Are
I was Wyatt Earp when I wasn’t Davy Crockett How was it that as a boy of four or five I came to wear a Davy Crockett coonskin cap or a Wyatt Earp outfit complete with a red and gold vest, striped pants...
View ArticleCPAC and SXSW: an American Stew
{!hitembed ID=”hitembed_1″ width=”350″ height=”250″ align=”right” !} It was spring break all over America. It was SXSW in Austin. It was CPAC time in Washington, D.C. While I was listening in Austin...
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