Editors Note: There is too much to say. And it’s all already been said, written, sung, screamed. Beginning on September 11 and continuing through September 20 the Herald-Times has printed 19 items that reference the…
Date Archives September 2011
A Machete to the Kudzu: Against Promoting Greed
A back and forth with my friend Dimitri in the comments section of the post on raising our children as if technology was “part of nature, part of us” broached the subject of the shifting…
Intellectual and Emotional Kudzu: Indiana Policy Review’s Propaganda
Today, the HT offered up 646 words of rank propaganda from the far right of the political, economic and social spectrum. Who gets 646 words in the HT? Guest columns? Nope, a 500 word limit. …
You Are a Very Useful Engine: Bringing up a Technologist
As some who read the Errant might know, especially if they were readers of Nemesis, I use Emerson as a touchstone frequently as well as often referencing the passage below which begins the essay “Experience”….
Warren Buffett and Corporate School Reformers to Gentrify / Charterize Indianapolis and Other Cities
The following is part of a longer essay Doug Martin is currently working on considering the Mind Trust, a corporate school reform outfit in Indianapolis. As Atlanta Progressive Review’s Matthew Cardinale recently noted, Purpose Built Communities…
True Education: Huck’s River, Against the Banks
I’ve been chatting with my friend Eric, who is a teacher, about Huckleberry Finn and we were discussing the difficulty of actually reading this greatest and most seminal of American novels (as Hemingway opined, though…
Tony Bennett and the Dark Night of Reform Ideology
I’ll confess that I have trouble focusing when it comes to the continuing and constant aggressive onslaught by “faceless” capital against human beings. I know that capital is not faceless–it shines in the face of…
Local Errant: Re-Habitat for Humanity Or Leave Those Trees Alone
(Update below) Gertrude Stein said, “a rose is a rose is a rose” (a rose arose?)…she also said “Birds measure birds measure stores birds measure stores measure birds measure,” and “Weeds without papers are necessary.” …
Tyranny at Home, Death Abroad: The Real Legacy of 9/11
What’s hard about yesterday, about honoring tragic events, is that it must necessarily be conducted only on a symbolic level. These are memorials. As such they are at best expressions of real, local grief and…
Reflections on September 11, 2001: On Experience
A preface of sorts first: Emerson, from the opening of his essay “Experience”. Where do we find ourselves? In a series of which we do not know the extremes, and believe that it has none….