Pockets Of Resistance
This is one of my favorite phrases because it flies in the face of the Borg phrase “resistance is futile”….
Social Commentary
Literary Corruption
I’m old enough to remember a time when the New York Times Book Review was a highly respected publication. I…
The Most Dangerous Word
So what’s the most dangerous word of all time? The. That’s right. The. It looks like an innocent…
If Your Ideas Are For Sale, How Much Will You Cost the Rest of Us?
When I found out that Thomas Edison might not have invented a damn thing himself, I was as crushingly disillusioned…
Under the Influence
I’m a big picture kind of person. That’s what makes it possible for me to pass the same painting in…
This is the Way the World Ends
T.S. Eliot is one of my favorite poets. The title of this post is a line from The Hollow Men….
Intellectual Apartheid
While camping a while back, someone read something written by Paula Gunn Allen to me while sitting around the fire. …
Let’s Start Crowd-Sourcing Science and Journalism
It seems like all the fine scientific minds are employed either by big business, say, creating drugs with longer and…
One Drop of Blood
An intelligent guy that I follow on Twitter asked me if I’d read this article titled “Fear of a Black…
What About All The Other Holocausts?
I read a news article about a French comedian being banned for making anti-semitic remarks. He’s also been charged with…
