N.B. This is to be the first in a multi-part entry arch, detailing changes that have occurred for me in the past decade. One of the underlying themes will be the political and social changes in which I, basically, came of age and grew up in ( Read more... )

They tell us there are only two sides to be on ( Read more... )

A thought has occurred to me. Not a particularly profound one, unfortunately, but one that could definitely --in the right scholar's hands; or even in the right muckraker's hands--could amount to something interesting. I don't have enough background or time or interest to pursue it further. This will, hopefully, be shorter than yesterday's entry ( Read more... )

I've drunken from the kool-aid --at least that is what I imagine my detractors would say. Since April when I made a very conscious, very deliberate choice to become sober (inspired, of course, by a psychotic episode) I have been a member of AA. I've noticed that lately, I have definitely "bought" the ideas that: there IS a higher power (which for ( Read more... )

I've been saying a lot that I keep either hinting at or completely forgetting to articulate certain ideas. I imagine, given all the pessimism and references to the same, tired musical acts and what not it is time I actually write on one of those topics ( Read more... )