Welcome to Freedom-land. Seriously, think about it. The world’s greatest power has increased its own poverty levels to where full 1/3 of the population lives in this state. Many of us commoners believe the state…
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..."
Charity at the Speed of Thoughtless Imagery
Yesterday I confronted a local newspaper column offered as a “correction” to remarks I made regarding charity and humanitarian aid seen through the marketing of narrow Hollywood frames offered by groups like Invisible Children. I…
“Can ponwyi”–The Grace of Gods by Force
In Acholi, a language of the Acholi people of Northern Uganda, “can ponwyi” literally translates as “disaster and poverty teach you.” (Allen, “Postscript: a kind of peace and an exported war,” 283)* This might put…
Bear Grylls, a 5th Grader, and Friday? What is Robinson Crusue
I sent the following to my local paper today–bear in mind there is a 200-word-limit. To the Editor: We like to believe that people who want to be elected for particular offices of government have…
Because We Live Here
From Taibbi in “A Christmas Message From America’s Rich” in response to the whining billionaire’s club: Most of us 99-percenters couldn’t even let our dogs leave a dump on the sidewalk without feeling ashamed before…
Facilitating First Impressions: Education and theTechnological Teat
A book will “drop” at the end of the month called “Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World,”. At the link is a brief interview with the author where he makes one point that…
On Hitchens-ism: When Good is Bad; The Humanitarian Screen for War.
I cannot improve on Greenwald’s discussion of the way the death of Christopher Hitchens has exposed a cadre of influential writers who provided “material support” for the invasion, destruction and occupation of Iraq as not…
Indubitably? The Philosophy of Inaction
First, let me confess to being at best an amateur as regards the study of philosophical texts and at times perhaps the worst sort of dilettante regarding that discipline. But, that said, I spend a…
Clinical Trials and the Cultural Mania for Torture
I am against clinical trials. Rather, I am against clinical trials as they are now conceived and implemented. I am against the mass “treatment” of the desperately ill via the marketing of hope (and often…
Robot Ethics: Gesture Without Motion
Robot Ethics? No such thing of course. But, here’s the problem, there are robots, there are drones, there are killing machines and spying machines already in operation everywhere (yes, everywhere), some of which are in…