The Simplicity of the LIberal and the Complicated path of the Conservative
The liberal cause is a much more direct, simple path then many would imagine. We are pretty straight shooters, we set up blogs that anyone can set up pretty quickly, we publish our thoughts (which...
View ArticleBuilding a Halcyon Life
Gone are the halcyon days Samuel R. Delaney writes of in his memoir, The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing in the East Village, when his full-time but fairly relaxed (and...
View ArticleCitizen McKane
There was a minor incident connected with the murder of President Kennedy which was little noted much less remembered. After the shooting, Jackie scrambled back over the trunk of the limo, was met by a...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Religion, Politics, and Big Narratives (Plus Kossascopes)
Yesterday we began exploring how and why some Americans treat religion as politics or politics as religion. Today we'll explore that topic further, but in a more generalized way that may point toward...
View ArticleTrue Grit
Originally published on May 3, 2009 at Yo Mama For Obama I want you to read this article about Justice David Souter and celebrate with me that we had the benefit of his intellect, common sense and...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Whose Universal Values?
The idea of "universal" values runs beneath a lot of our political dialogue. Dominique Möisi, whose work we discussed last week, argues the U.S. and Europe must again believe in the universality of...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Relative to Whose Values? (Plus Kossascopes)
On Monday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy asked the French Parliament to pass legislation banning the burqa - the most concealing form of the traditional Islamic hijab - in public, arguing it...
View ArticleMorning Feature: Is Pluralism the Goldilocks Zone? Not Exactly....
The United States is often spoken of as a "pluralistic" society. Most often that is mentioned in the context of religion, and means little more than that Americans practice many different religions,...
View ArticleA Progressive Dinner: Celebrating Interdependence
From plastic garbage in the middle of the Pacific and raging forest fires to the extraction and burning of fossil fuels, hardly a day goes by without mother Earth's feedback to our unsustainable human...
View ArticleMorning Feature: The Real Villain Is ... Me. (Idiot America, Non-Cynical...
Progressives know who the Real Villain in the health care debate is. It's Big Insurance. Or it's Big Pharma. Or Big Providers. Or Big Republicans, though they blame Big Lawyers and Big Patients....
View ArticleThe Simple Joys of a Reduced Christmas Season
While I and millions of DC residents are cleaning up after a huge snow storm, I look out my window and notice strangers giving aid and assistance to drivers of cars stuck in the wintry mix. Stodgy,...
View Article'To Control Them, You Need Simple Rules'
On Bill Moyers' (Jan. 8, 2010), Kevin Drum and David Corn made a point about financial reform that actually applies to many of the other problems currently roiling American society:
View ArticleToward Peace, Disarmament, Justice, Freedom, Poetry, Magic, Beauty, Positive...
First, Martin Luther King's vision of peace, freedom, and justice (Please see also My Open Letter to President Obama Regarding Disarmament and part of a HCR post that has a list of disarmament...
View ArticleYou can't wipe that spill with a Kleenex®
The disaster in the Gulf is many things. In fact, it is so many things that after seeing all that's been shown, reading all that's been written, and hearing all that's been said, perhaps one of the...
View ArticleMovin' on Up
The past several days I've been musing on the chosen strategies employed by the privileged and the well-educated to solve societal problems. In particular, I've been contemplating the idea of poverty....
View ArticleRediscovering Simplicity: The Cyclists of Italy (a photo diary)
Whenever I travel to different countries and cities, one of the things I'm interested in is how locals move around in their daily lives. Call me a transportation glutton, but I'm a sucker for trains,...
View ArticleInvoluntary Simplicity
Some people assume I’m a wealthy Hollywood producer, flush with cash to fund a little hobby-film about growth addiction. That couldn’t be further from the truth. Producing the documentary,...
View ArticleUSPS Releases Go Green Stamp (An Ode to the Letter)
Last week the US Postal Service released its newest stamp series, Go Green. It's a series of 16 stamps designed by Eli Noyes, a 68-year old farmers' market going, veggie growing, composting San...
View ArticleSimplicity is dyeing Easter eggs with cabbage
Some of us know we are shy by nature and some of us who are shy have read up on the subject. That's another thing that can be in one's nature, to read up on things. Somewhere in one of the many...
View ArticleHow Hot Soup is Making the Planet Cooler
For the past three months, my daily walk down the street has been seasoned by a small but quite lovely addition to the neighborhood. Whenever I'd cross the street at Valencia and 21st, a friendly,...
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