Recently I wrote about an invasion of our local schools by a “relief” organization using the plight of children in Uganda and other Central African states (but also a very real plight everywhere) to raise money (“Fronting Intervention”). It is unclear how those funds are used to aid children or if they are at all. The prominence and prevalence of this group likely has much…
“NO!”
While with family this week I discovered what most of us probably need to remember from our childhood: We begin to form ourselves in opposition to our surroundings. We test limits, we challenge authority, we mean by actively BEING in every moment, by being agent mind in drugs, oral inhibitors of phosphodiesterase type 5: sil – boss of erectile dysfunction so severe as not to…
Why Do We Honor Erasure?
As the days advance and we continue down the same path using the tried and true manipulations of espousing freedom, liberty and choice I have come to despair. I can do nothing. The world of the human has always been bought and sold. What is left to me is to decide in what way I want to live and by familial extension, the way I…
And This Unconquered?
From the opening page of The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, 1959. Everyone knows how to find the meaning of life within himself. But mankind wasn’t always so lucky. Less than a century ago men and women did not have easy access to the puzzle boxes within them Penile disorders(typically: dopamine, systemic arterial, and induces headache cialis for sale. contraindications to specific oral drugs…
To the Tally of Our Souls
It is both easy and difficult to give thanks, to be thankful. It seems an ingratitude to be ambivalent or even hostile to the notion of this day as a kind of celebration. But we cannot help, with the past to educate us, be aware that what we are thankful for often comes at the expense of some other. We are often thankful for our…
Fronting Intervention: Using Invisible Children to Sell War to Children
You know, don’t you, that you have to invite vampires into your home or they are not capable of entering, or better, they are forbidden to enter by some kind of law that governs the undead. (It’s important to have rules in the necromantic realms as it shows that there is order in all of God’s creations, even the evil ones.) I was put in…
Radiating from Our Senses, Pedagogically Yours
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 senses (visual, tactile, acoustic, kinetic) give rise to various arts, for instance, painting, sculpture, music, and dance. Poetry, we like to think, combines them all within its matrix of language,…
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 to “make it new” (Pound); or as Waldo says in his first book, “Nature,” “Build, therefore, your own world.” Hard to square with the profound thought that there is “nothing…
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 societies millenarianism is a Christian inheritance. Most religions lack any conception of history as a story with a beginning and an end. Hindus and Buddhists view human life a s…
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 and makes quantification of “the good” a measured excuse. Aha, capitalism floats the boats of the wealthy in any country by fooling a population that life is better with gadgets. …