Souls in Translation by Paul Buhle Audio Recording (46:09) – read by Doug Storm and Shana Ritter. History, the telling of it, is storytelling. These are voices I heard, the stories I heard, in my…
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Interchange – United Slaughterhouse of America: Josh Specht on the Cattle-Beef Complex
AUDIO LINKIn Red Meat Republic author Joshua Specht brings to life a turbulent era marked by Indian wars, Cowboy myths, Chicago labor unrest, and food riots in the streets of New York. He shows how the enduring…
On Allan Sekula: In the American Grain (WFHB’s Interchange)
AUDIO LINK: Shooting the Gulf: Allan Sekula In the American Grain In his most famous essay, “Self-Reliance,” Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote perhaps his most famous sentences: “Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases…
To Fart and Think of Dante
It’s hard not to love this paragraph from an essay on the poet Walter Lowenfels by Jim Burns – radical prostatectomy usa cialis survey, ED was defined as mild (occasional), moderate. receptor antagonist alpha2 –…
Manufacturing Global America
1849 Ere coming in sight of Uma, we put into a little bay, to pay our respects to Hevaneva, a famous character there dwelling; who, assisted by many journeymen, carried on the lucrative business of making idols for…
The Mind of the Archgod of the Earth
Yesterday, late, I posted the following as, “If Not Equality, then Broad’s Advantage,” and I wanted to start with it here because I just read it’s philosophical underpinnings in Lawrence (again, Women in Love). So,…
A Society Which Ought Not To Exist
“Society ought not to exist, if not for the benefit of the whole. It is and must be against the law of nature, if it exist for the benefit of the few and for the…
While You Still Have a Body: Rethinking Everything
The world dominated by humans operates outside of our frame of reference. No matter how hard you try it’s hard to think about the muddle when you are surrounded by it. It thinks you. Forgive…
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…