An excellent analysis and commentary by Warren Bonesteel on a growing phenomena which I believe will prove to be the saving and fostering power for our American society, and for the world.:
Social Singularity - Free Press Opinion
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Thursday, April 30, 2009
On Social Singularity: An Analysis and Commentary
". . . And where the danger is, lies also the fostering power." ~Holderlin
An excellent analysis and commentary by Warren Bonesteel on a growing phenomena which I believe will prove to be the saving and fostering power for our American society, and for the world.:
Social Singularity - Free Press Opinion
An excellent analysis and commentary by Warren Bonesteel on a growing phenomena which I believe will prove to be the saving and fostering power for our American society, and for the world.:
Social Singularity - Free Press Opinion
Arlen Specter Calls for "Rebellion and Uprising" in Republican Party to Purge Those Who Don't Want to Sell-Out Their Principles for Winning Elections....
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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
The Swine Flu and other Media Hype
As super flus have been with us for some time - at least since the '80s - it seems as though Swine Flu may soon go the way of other duds ( like West Nile and Avian flu, among others). In the heyday of the Bush-Cheney Administration, SARS was eyed with suspicions on the left, whose more paranoid members viewed it as a creation of mass hysteria, in order to gain control of the unruly masses. Small wonder, then, that many on the right are now crying foul over swine flu and Obama. Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose.
In Memoriam : For a Perugian Student
Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Will Obama Make America More Like Us?
I had noticed this disturbing trend in America since the '80s (Fallows tells us it began in the '60s). It is my hope that Obama with his Youth Corps and Civilian Corps and his insistence of "college for all" ( with the implication that maybe it would be easier to just skip it) will further the remedial suggestions Fallows lays out in his text.
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Gore Vidal and Provincetown of the 1940s
Many believe that Provincetown had its hey day as a gay community in the 1970s, but I have always been intrigued with the spirit of gay Provincetown in the 1940s, when Gore Vidal, Donald Windham, and Tennessee Williams were young and just entering the world of literary fame and glamor.
Williams wrote some of his best plays and short stories up in the rugged and wild Cape Cod town, in the outer regions where the sand dunes meet the stars. Vidal became by turns his nemesis, friend, editor, comrade in arms, and a fellow gay man in a time where the closet of the subculture was their venue.
Here's to remembering those magical summers, when brilliant and innovative minds were joining forces up in the gay mecca.
Obama and Aliens
Take me to your leader. . . I have a friend in Sydney, Australia who is a believer in things supernatural and extra terrestial. She tells me that she has read a recent article online, put out by some believers in aliens, who think that they just may reveal themselves now, because Barack Obama is President! While I have never given much thought to extra terrestial beings, it is an interesting bit of news, because of the psychological aspect. Obama has a special receptivity, and it does not go unnoticed. He is highly unusual in his blending of machismo and softness, stoicism and receptivity, intelligence and unconscious sensitvity. It will stand him, and us, in good stead: globally, nationally, and - according to some - universally.
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