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…
Browsing Category Politics
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. …
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….
Rally for Action Not Abstraction
Lenin famously asked, “What can be done?” Without following the path of Lenin (!) we must recognize our moments and take our chances as people to speak out, act out, against the tyrannies of entrenched…
Being Honest About Knowing Nothing: Who to Read
Hey, a quick note to ask you (while always paying proper attention to your favorite idlers here at the Errant) to bookmark and check in frequently with a few of my favorite writers and thinkers…
More than Markets: “We are Workingmen!”
(Update in the text: Big Food in Schools) I will always admit to an inability to connect point A to point X, Y or Z through the clear delineation of points B through W. I…
The Actions of the Criminal Classes: The Mask of Freedom
“The plague has freed them from the blind impulse to fall under the influence of contemporary laws. The knights, the merchants, the warriors and women, who demand–they each demand a new life.”–Viktor Shklovsky How about…
Dear Errant, Advice for the Marks: Always Be Cynical
If you haven’t seen Glengarry Glen Ross, get thee to your movie outlet of choice (ah, choice) ASAP. (Of course let’s not talk about the Mamet of today, okay?) Briefly, a real estate sales office…
Murdoch’s Wireless Gen. and EdisonLearning Donated Money to Tony Bennett
This is a guest post by B-town Errant contributor, Doug Martin. This post was originally published on Mr. Martin’s blog on Fire Dog Lake, and has been republished on B-Town Errant with his permission. As the Indiana…