How come I had figured this out without joining?
The military is something that never made any sense to me. I was never able to see any sensible reason for it. My dad spent time in uniform after being drafted during WWII. He never made much sense of it. We were all tremendously lucky that as an IT guyContinue Reading
Motormouth’s David Booth Rolls in Style over the Global Warming Issue…
Driving a new Ferrari Portofino, which starts at $215,000 Dave toured some of the burnt landscape on the elevated areas devastated by California’s recent horrific wild fires. Half way through the review he states…‘Of course, some of you are reading and thinking me crass for driving a Ferrari — ofContinue Reading
Are Food Banks Treating the Symtom or Offering a Cure
A program on CBC radio looked at the increasing cost for fresh produce in Canada and how that impacts the working poor and their families. The show garnered 600 comments covering the micro to macro. Elaine Power an advocate for the working poor wrote in the G&M on the contributionContinue Reading
Not so deep state Part III – The Toll
The fact that that the world is both made up of individuals and institutions neither means that the former govern the latter, nor that the former are eclipsed by the latter. It is a more complex influential interaction. What this article and the book it reviews show is how thisContinue Reading
Empire end times
Luis: NYT opinion piece supports Trumps response on the Khashoggi murder by prioritizing geopolitical investments in middle east even as some senators from both parties demand moral clarification on this fundamental violation of human rights. All of this after the CIA director revealed the existence of a wiretapped call betweenContinue Reading
Eating out the soul.
Two pieces from the LARB. Both trace the evolution, or better devolution of American character and society. The seeds have long been there and have been manifested in numerous ways. Darkness on the Edge of America looks at the work of Edward Hopper, a documentary painter if there ever wasContinue Reading
Tech Embraces Its Guru
The narrative of a High Tech Guru converges with a feminist writers essay from 1970 on masked group leadership. Are America’s high tech giants good people? The futurist philosopher Yuval Noah Harari thinks Silicon Valley is an engine of dystopian ruin. So why do Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others adore him so?Continue Reading
More on Words and Belief
Following on the article Luis posted the divergence of identity between PC language and the values it identifies, this tale strikes my as an inversion what is elaborated in the first. In this instance, words are instrumentalized into a PC language, — a Politically Centrist vocabulary; its faithfulness to centrism,Continue Reading
Hollywood in Turmoil a Year After #MeToo
“Yap, Yap–Go back to Your Kennels,” a leading producer (and he is one of the good guys) was talking off the record to the NYT about Time’s Up, the orgnization founded in January by Reese Witherspoon, Shonda Rhimes and other powerful Hollywood women to fight workplace sexual harassment.https://www.realclearmarkets.com/2018/11/12/after_metoo_hollywood039s_got_malaise_that_money_can039t_cure_218919.html contrast thisContinue Reading