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.
SUBSCRIBE Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. 60 years is a long time, the life of a human being. Yet, since the beginning of industrialism, the world has sped up. Today, the rapidity of change in one life, in 60 years, dwarfs
When everyone goes to your house, they shoot up in your room Most of them are beautiful, but so obsessed with gloom I didn't come here lookin' for no fix, ah-ah no I been houndin' your streets all night long, late baby Just lookin' for
Woza (Come) Friday, though Friday has come. It’s actually a better song for Wednesday, Tuesday, or god forbid, for you wage-slaves (and aren’t we all?), who "woza, woza Friday my darling" the minute you walk through your employer’s door every Monday morning. Here’s a
“SNCC( Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) activities within the broader (civil rights) movement reshaped the republican tradition as it was widely understood in American life. From the colonial period forward, this tradition had depended on the vision of independent yeoman—each with a stake in society—gathering to stand against distant,
Over the years in LA, I had some great experiences with a number of excellent people. I suppose this all marks some sort of day in US history or just another ring in our political circus, makes you wonder. U.S. Marines arrived in Los Angeles Zombie o, zombie, Zombie
Swab the decks ! Swab the decks! Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe to make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Funnily enough, a couple weeks ago, I youtubed the Gorrilaz Glastonbury show from 2010, a fine set of music it is, and on the side came a link entitled
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE Well, I’m loathe to write about this, but I’ll try to make it quick and painless. The FT has a better than most piece titled, How the 90s Shaped Donald Trump’s Politics
It's coming up, it's coming up, it's coming up It's dare! Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. The FT has a big piece on debt - The mounting pressure on bond markets. Is it
And it's all falling to bits – gloriously As I said last year when this bosom buddy bromance of convenience between America's two biggest narcissists, make no mistake my fellow Americans that's saying something, but it was not long for this world – Donald Trump attacks
Well, this time, I'm not in bed with the Russians, but in their attic. I have a great conversation with Yasha and Evgenia on where we are in our political world, how we got here, and what we need to think about to revive democracy in America: The
Life in the 21st Century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE From worst to best: Consumers Are Financing Their Groceries. What Does It Say About the Economy? "Nearly a quarter of consumers using buy now, pay later loans finance groceries, up from 14 percent a
And what costume shall the poor girl wear To all tomorrow's parties A hand-me-down dress from who knows where To all tomorrow's parties And where will she go and what shall she do When midnight comes around She'll turn once more to Sunday'