For the Greyhounds
cuts in education cuts in healthcare teachers need nothing so let’s be fair. let’s cut more jobs. let’s take away trains. let’s take away planes. let’s cut the arts. let’s cut all that makes us think and be smart. let’s cut anything that helps us use our hearts. let’s cut the cutters who create the […]
True Value
I am American.
my family once owned and operated a store.
my dad fought in the Korean War.
Floating on Air
I sleep well at night. Floating on air. All our furniture in storage light. All our love laid bare. An extended family we now live. We did not have on our own. To a new community we now give. Real people instead of voices on the phone. The recession took it all. Our old house […]
Transition
Whom will this transition favor? It may favor those with houses–with mortgages and kids–who are willing to pay whatever they can for a word of security. It may favor the imaginative, who may talk their way into shelter and protection. It may favor the itinerant–the rough and lonely individual–who can adapt to extremes. It may […]
Words for the Turning
That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest. (Henry David Thoreau. March 11, 1856)
Are you here? . . . Say what?
I heard a professor say, once, scolding a student: “Context, context, context.” Noam Chomsky, 1998?
De-petroleumization: The art of “Collapse”
This is my latest conspiracy theory, which predicts a pattern of dis-disinformation conducted by government officials, who, unable to officially and explicitly inform the public of facts concerning the current economic collapse, are resorting to individual acts of rebellion–through dramatic feats, curious phrases, and off-the-script performances–in order to align themselves more truthfully with the masses. […]
A Slightly more Objective Forecast
Here we go again. Not to cast a cloud over things. Surely you have seen this already, so forgive the repetition. This is a reminder that we are living at a precarious moment, and that forecasters of growing economic stress are not all conspiracy theorists and fringe economists. But this post is not intended as […]
The Face of God
Rupert Murdoch: You have meddled with the primal forces of nature, Mr. Beck, and I won’t have it!! Is that clear?! You think you’ve merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case. The Arabs have taken billions of dollars out of this country, and now they must put it back! It is ebb […]
Standard News Report
I am the boring dowdy kitchen man. I am not the lighthouse keeper being beheaded by a laser beam. Who are you?
The State of Our Union
A network is built for times like these. A message in a bottle I throw into the sea. I barely know you but we are in this together. As the consequences we face vibrate forever. Boats full of Africans sailed up to the beach. Half dead and half alive they could barely speak. Seeking a […]
