Dad watched the time as we drove some winding high mountain highway in the Colorado Rockies. He had purchased a black-and-white television that could be powered from the cigarette lighter to bring along just for this trip. As the target time approached, he pulled onto the shoulder, and sent my brother and I to wag down passers-by and invite them … Read more...
Category: Democracy, Rhetoric and Performance
sharp curves and time-out-of-time (TOOT!)
beyond this crisis there will be more
and how will we cope?
Capitalism Beyond the Crisis by Amartya Sen
The New York Review of Books
Volume 56, Number 5 &emdash; March 26, 2009
… Read more...“Ideas about changing the organization of society in the long run are clearly needed, quite apart from strategies for dealing with an immediate crisis. I would separate out three questions
talking turkey, making tools
27 November 2008
Thanksgiving in the Verenigde Staten is a holiday and a protest. The mood at the dinner hosted by the American Club was celebratory, although rumblings went round during an aggressive invocation I admit I could have done without. I was also a bit disappointed that no mention was made of the terrorist attacks … Read more...
about Obama
that kind of condescension has to be purged from our vocabulary.”
~ Barack Obama
The quotes I pulled from this long NY Times magazine article show me some of what I think is Obama’s deep wisdom – he is not playing divides against each other, but … Read more...
beyond disturbing
There is always so much going on.
Too much?
I’ve been trying to sort out some distinctions between “being spiritual” and “being religious” (after being tag-teamed by an Eastern European cynic and an Undertaker from India for the past six years, it seems I’ve finally cracked). 😉 I know I become overwhelmed, often, trying to make sense of the whole … Read more...
adequacy conditions (cognition and morality)
George Lakoff’s important book, Moral Politics, describes the root metaphor at the base of conservative and liberal worldviews. “Cognitive studies,” Lakoff explains, have concluded “that moral thinking is imaginative and that it depends fundamentally on metaphorical thinking” (p. 41). The explanatory metaphor for both conservatives and liberals extends a notion … Read more...
Let’s Get Going: Obama 2008
“For better or worse, this is Chicago,” said Ms. Katz, who has held fund-raisers for Mr. Obama at her home.
This is what I have always appreciated about Barack Obama:
… Read more...“…he’s not looking for how to exclude the people who don’t agree with him. He’s looking for ways to make the tent as large as
the stain of “white racism”: let it go!
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Popular Culture and Politics
I wonder how many more versions will be made?
… Read more...First,
Yes We Can – about Barack Obama
Then,John he is – about John McCain
Now,No You Can’t – about the system