I haven’t blogged in a while. I had to take a break so I could turn on the old wisdom crock pot and attend to healing after a year of ill health, personal loss, family upheaval, and near constant political action. So I ruminated and allowed myself the utter luxury of doing whatever the hell […]
Performance of "I Am Rachel Corrie" in the Heartland
I attendeded a performance of ” I am Rachel Corrie” last evening at Purdue University. The Semiotic Society of America is having their annual meeting at this fairly conservative university so I was quite heartened to see an organizer of the SSA encouraging attendance at Katherine Burke’s solo production of this play by Alan Rickman […]
A soldier's dilemma and honorable action.
Justin Watts is an honorable man. A local Tucson man showed a strength of character that few possess and fewer still can maintain when confronted with horrific knowledge that if disclosed will permanently alter untold numbers of lives and indeed the course of a nation. Justin is the man who voiced his concern about what […]
Tucson. Tonight. Peace. At The Loft.
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Two Must See Videos
Two must see shorts: Allegory – above most heads? If you didn’t see V for Vindetta, or didn’t “get” it — watch this clip. I am NOT a “9/11 Truth” type, but V for Vindetta wasn’t created as a narrow conspiracy awareness tool but as a broad-based allegory. Straight shooting commentary Keith Olbermann’s now historic […]
I'm ba-aack — without guilt.
Yep, I took a long vacation and relaxed for several weeks. Shame on me, right? How could a progressive blogger take a vacation before a critical election? Well, I am in this for the long haul and I am living a relatively new approach to U.S. politics but a millenia old approach to life. I […]