I’ve always liked movies, too much really. I grew up with WGN, which showed a lot of movies, most especially all those flicks from the 1930s Hollywood Golden Age. The screen was still new, sound just added, and they thought good writing was essential to good screen. Hollywood always
In Tanzania, Tundu Lissu was acquitted of trumped-up treason charges, though found guilty of trumped-up incitement charges. I’ve followed events in Tanzania from afar, since having had the privilege of working with Chadema for six months with the 2015 election. It always remain a meaningful campaign. The
Now there's a top front page for the ages, well such that ages come and go in decades at this point. It needs to be stressed the election results have little to nothing to do with the financial teetering. Over the last couple days, I've been
You call that loving French But it's just frenchette I've been to France So, let's just dance I always appreciate a good stomping, most especially when I’m not the one being stomped. Yesterday saw the electoral stomping of Donald Trump. It should also
“If we cannot accomplish that which we will, we may at least have willed it, and not just have blindly wished for it; and, on the other hand, our weakness may indeed prevent us from winning, but not from comprehending the force by which we are crushed. Nothing in the
If what’s marketed as AI has value, it will be in opening humanity to the understanding technology is politics. This remains to be seen, but there’s a number of recent optimistic sightings. Here’s a nice short interview on the Tech Report with a guy named Paris Marx
“I am the Alpha and the Omega” Revelation 1:8 Phew, life is a funny thing, punchlines can be nasty, sometimes brutish, but don’t lose your ability to laugh. The NYT has a piece about Google creating “virtual power plants” to meet the unquenchable energy needs of our post-
Too many Americans still believe in Democrats and Republicans. Another election approaches, billions spent on bad advertising – ok that’s redundant, attempting to convince Americans their vote to switch seats in DC means something. Yesterday, the NYT amusingly noted the one political entity in the country more unpopular than Trump
This is a nice short look at family Ellison and the growing entrenchment of America's aristocracy. There was a point in American history when American aristocracy would be a contradiction in terms. Most especially, with the majority, certainly not all, those white boys gathered in Philadelphia 250 years
Yesterday, a friend asked me for a quote from Simone Weil. Searching my notes, I realized I've wanted to write much more about Weil's thought. Well, this isn’t that, but I pulled several of her thoughts I found exceedingly relevant to the here and now.
Did an interview with bank, Wall Street analyst, and old friend Chris Whalen on Friday and had dinner with him last night. Chris knows history, too few these days, less than ever. I met Chris twenty years ago with an introduction from Bill Greider, who knew Chris’ dad, Richard Whalen,
"Humanity loves to ignore the questions of its origin and beginning: must one not be almost inhuman in order to follow the opposite course?"– F. Nietzsche, Human, All too Human Introduction – Politics has proved somewhat impenetrable to being affected by science and its technological progeny. The easiest explanation