Marriage is a little bird, tweeting in a meadow…

[Title=cult. non-seq. ref.; 10 pts.]
I don’t yet have the second part of my last post.  In fact, I’ve been avoiding all mention of politics for the past several weeks, ever since the Green convention.  I’ve been told by reliable sources that I haven’t missed much, which was rather my perception that led to the sabbatical [...]

The way forward, part 1

Publishing this now, as is; there’s much more to say, but I’ve been sitting on this for long enough.  More to come.
As we all know by now, Cynthia McKinney won the Presidential nomination of the Green Party on the first ballot last weekend in Chicago, and chose Rosa Clemente, a hip-hop activist from New York, [...]

The shot heard by no one

I haven’t written here for a while, but there’s a particular reason for that.  The GP’s convention occurred the weekend before last, and it’s safe to say that it had an impact on my view of the Party and the actions that I’ve been taking and planning to take as an activist.  I figured that [...]

The very uncomfortable area

I’ve been reading some of the testimony of Hermann Goering from the Nuremberg Trials; more specifically, from interviews conducted in his cell by a psychologist. Not exactly the best of reading topics at any time, and particularly not now.
I’m struck by the justifications from men in power - the denials, the half-truths, the buck-passing.  It [...]

The worst

Let’s get to the meat of the matter.  Is George W. Bush the worst President in U.S. history?
Typically, up to this point in history, Warren Harding has been considered the worst.  For sure, he was a conservative, and functioned as the sort whom FDR had to later save the country from.  He was corrupt, dreadful [...]

In which I learn a new word

(Note: many naughty words herein. Sometimes, there’s only one way of saying something. Warning duly delivered, those under the age of, etc., your mileage may vary.)
Cab Driver: Look out there; it’s a fucking coup d’état.
Sands: I can’t see, fuck-mook. I have no eyes.
– from Once Upon a Time in Mexico
I don’t really know [...]

Who do you love?

Leave it to the WashPost, in particular their Express birdcage liner that’s handed out free at Metro stops, to completely and utterly miss the point of the legacy of Bo Diddley.  The generic, vaguely respectful footnote-style obit noted all of the superficial aspects and failed to capture what we have lost in our soul by [...]

Hitting the small time

I don’t pat myself on the back very often - no, really, I don’t - but boy howdy, my latest podcast ep suddenly took off.  Granted, it has more to do with my loverly efbq hawking it on a couple of podcast sites than anything I did, but it’s still nice to have happen.  It [...]

Change we can really believe in

I just went to get some lunch at a laughingly named “cafe” around here on North Capitol St.; a sandwich shop, really, run by Korean immigrants and doing a very brisk business at the time.  I handed the fellow at the front a sawbuck for my meal; I received in change two fives and a [...]

Thinking caps

Now I have a couple of credos I live by.  The first and foremost is that actions should have reasons behind them that make some objective sense.  If you don’t want to do that, at least have some other, more subjective reason.  Do it for art, do it for the Revolution, do it for some [...]