In Greece in the mid-90s when I was there, plumbing lacked pressure and one could not as a rule flush tissue paper. Because of this the bidet was common. Paper was for drying, not for…
Posts Published by Douglas Storm
Douglas Storm is a host and producer for Interchange on Bloomington, Indiana's community radio station WFHB.
"Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it..."
120 Years Too Late
William Morris in an 1896 address to the Society for Checking the Abuses of Public Advertising: Next, we have to remember that the enormous majority of the people of the country do not care one…
Becoming is Revolutionary
This is too good for me not to lift right off of one blog and plunk it down here (“Steal this Blog Post!”)–this is from Paul Thomas cross-posting at DailyKos and Schools Matter, “Universal Public…
Diagnosing Ownership, or Why Would You Believe Them?
This piece by Michael Lind in Salon, “Why do Republicans nominate blue bloods,” asks why Republicans pose as the party of the “Self-Made Man” when they are nearly wholly (in the upper register) “rentiers” or…
You Say Sharia, I Say Shulchan Aruch and Ave Maria
This post, “English Citizens Increasingly Turning To Sharia Courts,” by noted Law Prof. Jonathan Turley is a little short (well a lot) short on substance but it basically says many Muslims in England are “circumventing the…
Inoculating Against Progress
I suspect that there is no such thing as a commons. Well, historically, there are “commons” all over the place. But it appears to have been erased by the Enlightenment discovery of “progress” and “improvement”…
So Proud of Our Dirt
I fear we have yet to understand, to wake up to the fact, that every single thing that seems to create contentious debate and divide our citizenry is endemic and intentional. That this disease of…
Educating Unethical America: The Lie of Impartiality
Or, immorality in amorality Or, the Ownership View Or, the View from the Top I. I got canned in January 2010. We had had several shake-ups in middle to upper management and had a new…
Light Thrown by Tinder-Boxes
It might be hard to do better than George Eliot does in this bit of psychological dissection of some ways of thinking in the face of “mysteries” and motivations (1861). The next morning the whole…
The Egalitarian Eagerness of Promethean Fire: The One Story
Here’s my take on the how the world unfolds. We are moving toward climate disaster. We are moving toward global cultural “synchronization.” We are moving toward global mercenary militarization. We are moving toward a “burning”…