How can anyone be truly free in a country as violent and stupid as ours? George Saunders “The Braindead Megaphone”
Turkle, Sherry. Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, Penguin Press, New York, 2015 (436pp.$27.95) Sherry Turkle holds an endowed chair at M.I.T. A trained sociologist and licensed clinical psychologist, everyday she rubs shoulders with the roboticists and affective-computing engineers who roam…
We have been abandoned here on this planet ruled by lying bastards of modest brain power. No sense. Not a tiny modicum of good intentions. Lying worthless bastards. William S. Burroughs Journal, May 26, 1997
Stiles, T.J. Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America, Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2015 (582pp.$30) Dozens if not scores of books have been written about George Armstrong Custer (nicknamed Fanny by his West Point brothers on account of his flowing…
The effect of this immense revolution (Capitalism) is always the same: established rights of direct access to one’s own product were replaced by new rights by which peasants and workers were legally excluded from access to their means of livelihood. Only by understanding that the…
We don’t have to let go of Jim Harrison. His poetry remains. But Jim, my companion over many years, you said it well. Pain (2) by Jim Harrison Pain is at the steering wheel swerving left and right for a year now….
Capitalism is the regime of capital, the form of rulership we find when power takes the remarkable aspect of the domination, by those who control access to the means of production, of the great majority who must gain “employment”—the capitalist substitute for the traditional entitlement…
Theroux, Paul. Deep South: Four Seasons on Back Roads, with photos by Steve McCurry, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston/New York, 2015 (441pp.$29.95) A muggy tedium seeps from nearly every chapter of Paul Theroux’s eighteenth work of non-fiction and tenth travel book. He is, he admits, weary…
Im still lamenting the death of Jim Harrison. Here’s my favorite poem of his. It could easily be a testament. Losing him was like losing a brother. Bridge by Jim Harrison Most of my life was spent building a bridge out over the…
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos. Henry Miller “Tropic of Capricorn”