Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media.
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Mar 18th, 2008
From the part I caught, it sounded good but not great. (And there were parts I just didn’t like, but I think that had more to do with his low-key delivery.) But it actually reads much stronger than it sounded.
The question now is, will the people he needs to win back actually listen?
I can [...]
Posted in Higher Ground on Mar 14th, 2008
Nice interview with M. Scott Peck, author of the longtime bestseller, “The Road Less Traveled.”
Posted in Higher Ground, War Stories on Feb 24th, 2008
to the peace sign.
This forked symbol was designed for the Direct Action Committee Against Nuclear War (DAC) and was adopted as its badge by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND) in Britain, and originally was used by the British nuclear disarmament movement. It was later generalised to become an international icon for the 1960s anti-war [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, Imaginary Global Warming on Feb 10th, 2008
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Feb 10th, 2008
I can understand his concerns. Greg Sargent:
An Edwards aide confirms to me that John Edwards met privately with Hillary on Thursday to discuss the possibility of making an endorsement, and will meet with Obama tomorrow, as first reported by Mark Halperin.
The Edwards aide gave me a bunch more detail, including this: “There’s a greater than [...]
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground on Feb 7th, 2008
It’s really bad, and they need it:
CASTALIAN SPRINGS, Tenn., Feb. 6 — The searchers had already gone over the field once.
It seemed unlikely that anything else would turn up. It was dark and rainy, and amid the awesome wreckage left by the tornado that had just passed here they had already found three dead. Some [...]
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground on Feb 7th, 2008
Monkeyfister asks that we contribute to the aid of those left devastated by the wave of tornadoes in the South.
Put yourself in their place, and then do something to help.
Right now, I recommend the:
American Red Cross
Mid-South Chapter
1400 Central Avenue
Memphis, TN 38104
901-726-1690
And:
United Way of the Mid-South Phone in a donation at (901) 433-4300.
They take DIRECT donations, [...]
Posted in Higher Ground on Feb 5th, 2008
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, 91.
Posted in Arts & Music, Higher Ground on Feb 4th, 2008
Sounds of laughter, shades of life
are ringing through my open ears
inciting and inviting me
Limitless undying love which
shines around me like a million suns
It calls me on and on across the universe.
Link:
Posted in Class War, Fuck the Poor, Higher Ground on Feb 1st, 2008
The more they remain the same. This is fascinating: the diary of a Presbyterian missionary in the poorest parts of West Virginia during the Great Depression.
Posted in Fuck the Poor, Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Jan 31st, 2008
Great article in L.A. Weekly about Edwards.
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual on Jan 30th, 2008
Posted at Democratic Underground:
I just hung up from a conference call with supporters of the Edwards campaign. Both John and Elizabeth spoke.
Some of my notes:
Elizabeth Edwards introduced John:
“…I felt in 2004 that we left the campaign without leaving a mark… not this time… a lot of the policies on the table are the result of [...]
Posted in Higher Ground on Jan 30th, 2008
I’ll be posting tributes to John and Elizabeth Edwards as I find them. (Feel free to forward any you stumble across.)
We’ll start with this one.
And from the New Republic (just this once, I’ll link to them): “Why John Edwards Won.”
Posted in Higher Ground, Politics As Usual, Power to the People on Jan 21st, 2008
From Martin Luther King Jr.’s son, telling him to keep fighting.
Posted in Higher Ground, Recession Depression on Jan 21st, 2008
My dear friend Somegirl has some inspiring stuff today:
I once had a Professor of Polish culture who was a key figure in the Polish resistance in WWII. He was captured and was dying of starvation in a prison camp at war’s end, a skeleton, ill, terrorized, barely alive. The American government brought him to the [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, Theocracy on Jan 21st, 2008
Posted in Arts & Music, Higher Ground, Power to the People on Jan 15th, 2008
To Martin Luther King Jr.
Posted in Higher Ground, Power to the People on Jan 10th, 2008
There’s no doubt in my mind it should go to Abdul Sattar Edhi. Read more from Pakistaniat.com:
Irrespective of whether Abdul Sattar Edhi is a Pakistani or not, irrespective of how much most Pakistanis hold his selfless zeal in reverence - and irrespective also of all the ways in which a few have tried to malign [...]
Posted in Higher Ground on Dec 25th, 2007
But as far as I’m concerned, Mary is always going to look a lot like Imogene Herdman - sort of nervous and bewildered, but ready to clobber anyone who laid a hand on her baby. And the Wise Men are always going to be Leroy and his brothers, bearing ham. When we came out of [...]
Posted in General, Higher Ground, My So-Called Life on Dec 24th, 2007
Christmas Eve is the most important night of the year when you’re Polish and when I walked to the local Polish grocery store this morning, the place was packed with people waiting to pick up meat at the butcher’s counter for tomorrow.
Traditionally, Christmas Eve is a meatless meal, with twelve courses - one for each [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, War Stories on Dec 22nd, 2007
John McCutcheon’s beautiful song, based on this true WWI story:
My name is Francis Tolliver, I come from Liverpool.
Two years ago the war was waiting for me after school.
To Belgium and to Flanders, to Germany to here,
I fought for King and country I love dear.
‘Twas Christmas in the trenches, where the frost so bitter hung,
The frozen [...]
Posted in General, Higher Ground on Dec 21st, 2007
Because everyone seems so frightened these days, I thought I’d share something that might help. Pema Chodron, the Buddhist nun, wrote this in her book, “The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times.”
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.
—ANTOINE [...]
Posted in Action Alert, Higher Ground, Power to the People on Dec 21st, 2007
Synchronize your orgasms for world peace at 1:08 a.m. EST Dec. 22 (at the moment of the solstice).
Citizens of the world, do your duty!
Posted in Higher Ground on Dec 19th, 2007
In case you’re just not feeling the season, read this lovely little bit from Garrison Keilor:
Dec. 19, 2007 | It was Christmas in the New York subways last week, musicians heading off to play Christmas gigs, and in the Times Square station a wild-haired old man out of a George Price cartoon pounded out “Winter [...]
Posted in Arts & Music, Higher Ground on Dec 8th, 2007
I miss John Lennon.
Posted in Higher Ground on Dec 1st, 2007
UNRWA (the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) is currently planning to create 11 toy libraries at its ten Women’s Programme Centres and at one of its busy Community Rehabilitation Centres in the Gaza Strip to provide places where around 3,800 children will be able to enjoy [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, My So-Called Life on Nov 30th, 2007
My friends (the historical document dealers) had a lovely cocktail reception last night to celebrate the opening of their new office.
I got to speak with a descendant of Gen. Smedley Butler, who knew his ancestor only as a general and not as the person who exposed the right-wing coup attempt against Franklin Roosevelt. (He was [...]
Posted in Higher Ground, War Stories on Nov 26th, 2007
Sears, a good corporate citizen. If you’re shopping for Christmas, throw a few bucks their way.
Posted in Higher Ground on Nov 26th, 2007
Very, very cool.
Posted in Higher Ground, Our Booming Economy on Nov 26th, 2007
Does the consumer society make us depressed? Doh!
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