Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
“The American technocrats have drawn an enchanting picture of a society in which, with the abolition of the market, technicians would find themselves all-powerful, and would use their power in such a way as to give to all the maximum leisure and comfort possible. This idea reminds us, by
I’m in Chicago and the other day my 93 year old mother was in the other room watching the Trump show from Versailles. My mother now has the TV volume higher than my dad once did, that’s saying something. So, once more, despite best efforts, Trump was sticking
“This future man, whom the scientists tell us they will produce in no more than a hundred years, seems to be possessed by a rebellion against human existence as it has been given, a free gift from nowhere (secularly speaking), which he wishes to exchange, as it were, for something
“That way you’ll understand in future days, when there’s a profit to be gained from theft, you’ll learn that it’s not good to be in love with every kind of monetary gain. You’ll know more men are ruined than are saved when they earn profits
Life just bounces So don't you get worried at all It's that time. I've been a futbol fan for a long, long time. The high school my brother and I attended was one of few in Chicago with no football, but a soccer team.
It’s because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. – Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment So, ran across a piece regarding "virtual energy plants." This is something, I've advocated, well, longer than I or anyone would
"In my opinion, there is no anguish in the Greeks. That's what makes them dear to me. Never does just struggling against anguish produce serenity. The struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. They were on another level: they had grace." Simone Weil, Letter,
So for months, Ames has been sending me things about Graham Platner running for Senate in Maine. I would glance. However, the NYT had a recent interview. I looked closer because he had beat Chuck Schumer's candidate without a vote, not that that's difficult. In the
I stopped in as guest co-host on Trippi's Two Joes podcast, as I am another Joe. We discuss AI, oil, and a little election. Regarding the last, I didn't mention the biggest problem regarding any rout in November is a lot of people don'
“Without the institutions of a township a nation can give itself a free government, but it does not have the spirit of freedom. Fleeting passions, the interest of a moment, the chance of circumstances can give it the external forms of independence; but despotism suppressed in the interior of the
"All my means and methods are sane: my purpose is mad." - Captain Ahab, Moby Dick I came across a speech Ted Turner gave at Brown University in 1993. It reminded me how much I liked Turner, maybe the most important American political figure in my life, and that&
"To foster evil actions, to make them commonplace among all men, nothing is as powerful as money. It destroys cities, driving men from home. Money trains and twists the minds in worthy men, so they then undertake disgraceful acts. Money teaches men to live as scoundrels, familiar with every