Category: Non Fiction

28 Jul

How about a little political optimism?

After seven and a half years of conservative leadership in the United States I think it’s safe to say that the American people are exhausted. We’ve survived the smug self-righteousness of the conservatives, blunted our ears and minds to the endless propaganda streaming from Fox news, CSPAN, stared blankly as even the satire of lies, [...]
02 Jul

Radio Silence

At the end of his life, Senator Marchese Guglielmo Marconi, president of the Royal Academy of Italy, Member of the Fascist Grand Council wondered if he had done the world some good, or if he had added a menace. The Nobel Laureate invented the radio, operating a two-circuit transmitter he commanded the Italian Military radio [...]
15 May

Spare change?

I know I’m probably taking this a little too literally (or am I reading too much into it?) but I don’t know how I’m supposed to respond to the new House Republican’s slogan. In a season of calls for change, democratic contests, encouraging numbers of people expressing hope, a sincere interest in the electoral process, [...]
03 Apr

Why Hillary Clinton should never “step down”

I was standing on Church street tonight with my dear friend Jill. We’d just been out together, and then ate a quick dinner. We had a lovely time. I adore Jill and time with her is always well spent. We’re different in many ways, but somehow the two of us are cut from the same [...]
31 Jan

Mr. Friendly throws like a girl

Tomorrow night tonight the fourth and final season of Lost begins. Here’s what you missed Can you stand it? I can’t stand it.
01 Nov

La science des rêves

I’ll be completely honest with you. I rented Michel Gondry’s ‘The Science of Sleep’ and when it arrived today I sighed and tossed it on the side table where I put my mail. I actually thought it was a film, a documentary film about sleep. So tonight I made myself a humble dinner, and sat [...]
09 Oct

Taking a different look at television

A little history I went about a decade without a television. Although I was accused of being one of those people who say “I don’t watch TV” when asked about shows, or specials or videos, I didn’t forego having a television set to be self satisfied, I was on tour, plugged into a computer, and slouched [...]
05 Oct

Partners in a common effort

It’s hard to admit, but I’ve spent much of my life in a backward condition. I have always felt a general feeling of us and them, and in my darkest hours I’ve suspected that maybe it was only me, and there wasn’t even an us. It doesn’t matter how I found myself in this [...]