While attending the 2008 Personal Democracy Forum in NYC the other week, I had the pleasure of listening to an enlightening and motivating talk by Morley Winograd, who along with… Continue

We are the hollow men

We are the stuffed men

Leaning together

Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! - T.S. Elliot

It may seem an odd setting in which to bemoan the wonders of the internet. And it is a wondrous innovation. Never before have we been so close to vast resources of information. We need only to "Google" a topic and within seconds (Google even tells us how long the search has taken) we can pour over endless lines of digitized text, hyperlinked… Continue

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography" - Ambrose Bierce

The media has come under criticism this week for their election coverage. Given the fact that major news outlets and networks cover the 2008 Presidential Election ad naseum, one wonders why there isn't more public scrutiny for not for the quality of this coverage, but for the neglect of other issues and… Continue

Forty years ago today, Senator Robert Kennedy won the California Democratic Primary, which all but secured him his party's nomination in the '68 Presidential Elections. There is much to be remembered about Robert Kennedy and his times -- his insurgent campaign for the presidency, his passionate concern for the underprivileged and forsaken around the world, his long running enmity with President Johnson, and his legacy. You may want to read… Continue

In his most recent book, The Great Derangement, Rolling Stone's roving observer of American politics, Matt Taibbi, seeks to tie the disparate ends of American political extremism and religious fundamentalism since 2001 while mining for some sign that the tide is curling… Continue