I was talking with my brother-in-law John the other night about last Saturday’s hastily planned and so-called “failed” trip to the good (space)ship “Neptune” (see this, and this, as well as many more on the stevebeckow.com site for this incredible story). I was telling him about the conference call that my son Colin and I […]
Read MoreJust checked to see what basketball coach Tom Crean “makes” at Indiana University per year: 1.5 M. And that’s nuttin’ compared to Louisville, Kentucky coach Rick Pitono’s 7.6 M. I once knew a Big Pharma exec’s trophy wife. They had a fancy horse ranch in the Sawtooths of Idaho, another show home 50 miles south […]
Read MoreYes! How often do I find something that echoes what I realized during my first (and only) slave-labor “job,” back in 1959 when I was 15, doing summer work in a tiny room in a hospital to re-type a nurses’ manual with a big round clock on the wall. I’d go to coffee breaks and […]
Read MoreYesterday’s post on Roseanne’s decision to run for President (of the Green Tea party) and her provocatively original use of language made me think about the whole question of re-learning how to fully, deeply, massively occupy the specific sound sequences we use to trill word song into the universe. Then, this morning — another synchronicity! […]
Read MoreNon-violence or not? That seems to be the question. And above all, why, for either tactic and/or philosophical stance. I find the discussion below the Hedges post on the “cancer” in Occupy very stimulating and provocative — especially the notion of a “post-colonial interpretation” of Hedges world-view. You also might want to check out the […]
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