Politics | Politics
Jan.29.2013
Barack Obama – a Red Room member, by the way – has expressed concern about the damage football causes to its participants. If the violence in the game is reduced, thus also reducing the damage to bodies and brains, then ``those of us who are fans maybe won't have to examine our consciences quite as...
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Jan.29.2013
This month's abbreviated magazine week showcase begins here:
The Atlantic, January/February 2013
Sometimes New Years’ resolutions really amount to something more than good intentions and, given that The Atlantic actualizes such intentions at the start of 2013, this issue gladdens me. It...
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Jan.26.2013
"Sunshine Highway" has been out a year now. Publishing a book that actually means something to the local community has been an eye-opener to me. Fiction can make a difference? Who would've thought? Sure, Jonathan Swift and Charles Dickens and Upton Sinclair made a...
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Jan.23.2013
I’ve had bangs for most of my life, except during the year when I turned 13. That’s when I grew them out and wore my hair in a ponytail because that’s what my best friend Toni did. Eventually, I determined that my forehead was too high, and I went back to wearing bangs. But lately I’ve decided I...
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Jan.23.2013
If, as some claim, violent video games and films have contributed to the desentsitization that has led to our killing culture, then certainly football can also be blamed. We have been trained to continue to cheer the game even though we now know there is ongoing brain damage in every contest. If...
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Jan.23.2013
Last October, a group of lawyers, plaintiffs and activists involved in the lawsuit against the NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) and its indefinite detention provisions held a live chat on Reddit. This group included Chris Hedges, Daniel Ellsberg and...
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Jan.21.2013
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
One of my more politically divisive Facebook friends posted this quote yesterday morning, which she termed her favorite from Martin Luther King. She used it as an admonition to differing "political sides," capped off...
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Jan.21.2013
I, like most of us, have begun to think seriously of late about various socio-political things facing us everyday (trust me - this will have to do with my usual subject matter of media, technology, creativity, etc.), particularly the gun-realted tragedies of the past few years, but also...
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Jan.17.2013
Chapter 3
Perfect – that’s what the Secret Service has to be. But, on the Tuesday night of February 26, 2023, the men and women charged with the safety of President Stephanie Roosevelt-Hill were helpless as the perfect murder plan was acted out on a world stage by a deranged member of...
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Jan.16.2013
Chapter 2
William Wyckoff witnessed death many times before on the battlefield as a soldier, but he had never witnessed anything quite like this in any war. He had watched many men die – either soldiers under his command, or enemy soldiers his men helped kill. But now, he was forced...
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