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Mar.19.2012 Day 79: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- "Murder in War Is Not an Anomaly" Feeling a bit better, despite the incessant cries and hammering of what Son Guy and I have come to call "Dracula's Minions" at the apartment house restoration across the alley. For weeks, they had either run out of money or worked inside, but today, they unlimbered a crane and a...	Feb.24.2012 Day 54: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- Bogged Down in Minor Email and Truthdigs On this continuing unseasonably warm day in San Francisco, Son Guy purchased for me a hundred dollar money order (proceeds from almost the last of my dental gold) and took it to Charles Schwab, to cover a cheque for my Medicare, which is due before month's end. While he was gone and...
Feb.14.2012 Day 44: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- "A big Breitbart Production!" Spent most of the day working on material for a possible interview concerning an event in my past, but I was distracted by the incredible comment reactions generated by Chris Hedges' Truthdig essay on the dangers of "black blocs" to the Occupy Movements. Scores of people, either romantics,...	Feb.12.2012 Day 42: Macresarfff1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- "Bunklenuts Are Scarce in Morocco!" Spent part of this damp Frisco day, reading but refraining from answering further the commentary on Chris Hedges's dead-on essay about the dangers of Black Blocs to the Occupy Movements. One cannot have a massive peaceful movement against American and International Corporatism while...
Feb.09.2012 Day 39: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse 2012 -- Threat to the Occupy Movements Bummed out today. Spent some of last night, and much of today, reading and commenting on Chris Hedges essay in Truthdig about "the cancer," as he puts it, of "black blocs" rising in Occupy Oakland and other Occupy communities. He is quite right that the foolish or malicious destruction...	Feb.07.2012 Day 37: Macresarf1's Year of the Apocalypse -- The Attempt to Splinter the Occupy Movements Here is some interesting and disturbing ideas in the form of today's Chris Hedges Truthdig essay. Pay special attention to the range of serious, sinister, frivolous, and ignorant commentary which follows Hedges' piece. Macresarf1 takes part, but therein perhaps lies the gathering...
Aug.15.2011 What Happened to Liberal Democracy? A brief review of two books. I've been looking for some book length works of political analysis, to add to what my consulting experience and reading of other sources tells me is going on beneath today's headlines. I'm particularly interested in Sheldon Wolin's Democracy, Incorporated and Chris Hedge's Death of...	Feb.03.2010 What Would Kafka Say? Franz Kafka, one of my all-time heroes, used his writing to even the score with his over-bearing father. I had one, too. In fact, weren't all fathers supposed to be overbearing, until just recently? My thanks especially to the gay community for making it OK for males to reveal the existence of our...