The poet May Swenson, in her preface to a selection of Tomas Transtromer poems she had translated into English, offers what might be the perfect vision for public education: Signals and responses radiating from our…
Date Archives November 2011
Elementary America: A Soul More Protean and Mercurial
In Emerson’s “American Scholar” he asserts his goal is to proclaim that America can and should slough off the historical legacy of European thought and literature. Ever after our poets are confronted with the requirement…
In Order To…Three Damnable Words
I would like to ask you to simply think about the paragraph that follows. Perhaps think of it in connection with the recent Errancy, “Generative Apocalypse.” “In the forms in which it has affected western…
In the Midst of Apocalypse: Tom Friedman Is a Weathercock of Irrelevance
Look, no listen, no hear… The world is riven. More and more we strike epiphanic notes. Aha, the world is run by the few at the expense of the many. Aha, utility privileges the few…
Counter-Balancing Propaganda–Does It Matter?
If, as our bleeding edge neuroscience computer-techs tell us, we are prone to believe in one or another political morality without need of empirical evidence, which might be called, in a simplified manner, the tribe…
An Errant Declaration of Educational Mission
Upon review, it seems as though “mission statements” are succinct (though that begs the question as to what use they are); I’m not sure who decided a mission statement needs to be brief. Brief statements…
Generative Apocalyptic: Same As It Ever Was
The Book of Revelation is true. Well, true enough. Well, true if you want it to be. True if you think it’s true oxide (NO) acts as a physiological mediator, activating the cialis online first…
The Long-Haired Persian Knows It Well: An Errant Snapshot of Greece
Errant contributor Photine Liakos sends us a verbal snapshot of Greece, from Greece, below. While we in the States can know nothing that isn’t punditry promoted by the IMF and the World Bank (unless you’re…
The News Imbued with Charter Ague
Our friend and contributor Doug Martin updates us daily, bright and early, at his Facebook page, Indiana Government Exposed, as to the extent in which our public schools are being degraded, down-graded, and defunded by…
Servicing the Masters (SOP): The Daily Show and OWS
They truly were the least-toileted generation. That quote is from Jon Stewart in the show’s most recent foray into humor at the expense of thought. Take a look and then come back (sorry, I can’t…