Monthly Archives: December 2012

It’s after 3 pm, so I’m listening to the blues on WGBO-FM online and thinking about science. I love this old music recorded on machines built with vacuum tubes. It has a coloring and a presence that is a part … Continue reading →

Health Care Reform is confusing and scary. Will the proposed changes make costs go up or come down? How will the quality of service be effected? Will treatment improve or worsen? And who will make the decisions that determine how … Continue reading →

Let’s stop denying the election wasn’t a plebiscite on creating new revenue to reduce the deficit by raising taxes on the top 2%. This is to balance cuts in direct benefits. Let’s stop overlooking the taxes represent 4 additional cents … Continue reading →

Reblogged from Africa is a Country: A year ago, there was some minor hullabaloo created when African students in India were not permitted in some bars. But yeah, it remained a minor tempest. Most likely, prevalent attitudes towards Africans (and … Continue reading →

Media omits 3 facts about this mis-named, major legislative story. First, this is the very bill Boehner forced on Obama and then gloated that the President gave him “98%” of what he wanted. This bill, including sequestration, is a Republican … Continue reading →

The protection of the tender psychology of children is too often a false, hollow box of innocence, built from a tacit agreement that both parents and children will look the other way at the harmful, risks just beyond the door … Continue reading →

(After another rant about the rich being our keepers/) And workers don’t? Keep this country economically viable? The wealthy shoulder the burden all by themselves, for the benefit of all of us, even the poor? That MacDonald’s worker, working Christmas … Continue reading →

Southern writers essayists are often left off the lists of “best” and “outstanding.” Journals such as Callaloo, Southern Exposure, The Georgia Review, and publishers including Algonquin Press have created a rise in important Southern non-fiction that matches the earlier fiction … Continue reading →

The ancients organized the world into levels to facilitate understanding. Levels let them  see how complex parts interacted. The economy benefits from this approach; Paul Krugman often uses it, but the discussion of those doing the discussing is really quite … Continue reading →

African societies have historians called griots. The griots study society for its contradictions rather than its cause and effect. In a deep irony, the harmony of Wayne LaPierre’s view is a telling; his view is exactly the same as a … Continue reading →