The powers that be control the message—even more than you know
Here is another depressing argument that the reality you and I inhabit, and feel comfortable most days saying we have some control over, has been sanitized for our protection. The New York Times...
View ArticleA journey of a thousand miles begins with…
“Change is sure slow” I wrote last week; I was wrong, and couldn’t be more pleased about it. I wrote that in a post based on a New York Times story about the growing practice of government and campaign...
View ArticleAfter that first step it’s pretty much all downhill the rest of the way
It seems I could not have been any more wrong about change being slow: here are more positive developments resulting from last week’s “quote approval” story from the New York Times (thanks to Jim...
View ArticleIn the wake of the Newtown school shooting
Passing along links to what I think are worthwhile reads on the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, and the aftermath… For starters, here’s a dispassionate chronology from the Hartford Courant of...
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