CULTURE

But what I see (early 2012) concerns me tremendously: Supreme Court decisions that have given corporations expanded protections while police pepper-spray people gathered in nonviolent assembly; income inequality of Third World proportions, endemic white collar crime, an inexorable slide in our global educational rank, and some in our population who cheer when the question is, […]

Every morning I wake up and then all day and into the night I use what Steve Jobs invented to invent. Steve Jobs’ life is a testament to many things, I think, and many have been singled out, appropriately. I like that he is spoken of in the company of Edison. For me, his life […]

From his 1959 book Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems “I was very Marxist in college, but couldn’t make it with the regular Commie bunch because of my individualistic-bohemian-anarchist tendencies, all much looked down upon. Of course, being the only real member of the proletariat in the bunch of them, the others being upper middle class […]

“Dylan hit a nerve for me, opened a door into a trove of barely distant memories when I was a grade-schooler and would be told to huddle under my desk in case of attack. I had grown up with Fail-Safe and Dr. Strangelove and had lived through the endless grade-B Japanese horror films where everything […]