How’s That Change Thing Working Now?

SMOKING HOT BLAME YOU CAN BELIEVE IN Signed up for the National Park Service going rogue Facebook page this morning. I owe much of my souls most healed aspects to the unfettered, unfiltered quiet time the parks have gifted to my life. To imagine what we need to do is liquidate these national treasures is […]

Slimeballing, Suckerpunching Misdirection Games

The Butt of a Bad Joke Jack Welsh coined the phrase “shareholder value.” Two pieces of the puzzle tilted in capitals favor from this four decade ago event. First, was an emphasis upon the share price. The second was the compensation packages for management. Washington was not an innocent bystander. Tax cuts, trade policy, regulation […]

The Mystics Guide to Pointlessness

“She’s perfect, and you’re perfect, the whole thing is perfect even though you know there is no such thing as perfect and that’s perfect… It’s Fukushima with a happy ending.” I use the Eastern psychological model when planning a novel. It is simple. Characters can be described as acting in a wholesome and skillful way, […]

Lord of the Styles

This moment’s style and fashion is so obvious. House of Cards has it, Veep deploys it, and Silicon Valley is based upon it. Lenny Bruce skewered the sacred by roasting it atop the fires of the profane hypocrisy’s he alone seemed capable of speaking about. And for each act taking one tack there […]

A View from the Nations Capital

Watergate If I told you who I had dinner with last night I would have to kill you. Evidently the individual was privy to top secret information. He continuously looked around to see if anyone was overhearing the conversation. He was sure the gentleman seated at the next table was trying to glean […]

The Unintended Mood Altering Political Disaster

S. Philip Morgan and his colleagues have identified an interestingly complex effect, after Obama’s election in 2008, Republicans became more pessimistic about the economic future while Democrats remained more optimistic; that optimism or pessimism influenced decisions to have children – to the advantage of blue states. Claude Fisher, Professor of Sociology U.C. Berkeley The […]

The Truth of the Thing

“I asked Norman Mailer which of the other art forms he thought being a novelist was closest to. “Acting,” he said. Under the Influence, Andrew O’Hagen. April 27, 2013 Financial Times Following the River, Guided by the Light WHAT WE USE Most of us are familiar with the list of elements that the novelist utilizes […]

Slow Down You Move to Fast, You’ve Got to Make the Morning Last

Running the mile in less than four minutes, we knew it could be done we just didn’t know what it might mean. Now the rate of change seems to sweep whatever it is we are doing now into the dust bins of our present. So we sit with one foot in the present while we […]

“The Evil of Two Lessers….” Quoting Now from a tweet out of Iowa

There are some dirty rotten scoundrels in this world. They get mixed in with all of us. Deep thinkers that I know propose that we are all potentially evil. They claim we have latent seeds of dirt and rot and scoundrel just waiting to break out I suppose they are right. I lose my temper. […]

Deep Background on an Earl Warren Supporter

Back in ’64 when cigarette smoking remained a virtuous activity for an aspiring up and coming young man San Jose was a place where one of the largest stone fruit crops in the world was still grown. Apricots, peaches, and nectarine orchards were still a defining feature. The Jesuits were still growing wine at the […]