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9/11 and the New York Times today
Today being 9/11, I note that the New York Times has fired a last broadside across the bow of George W Bush. On the Op Ed page, Kurt Eichenwald, who has written extensively about the ‘war on terror’, claims to have read a number of Presidential Daily Briefings from the days leading up to 9/11 and concludes that Bush and […]
A Republican Plan for recovery rejected by the GOP
I haven’t gone rogue here. This is a plan that’s been around for a couple of years now. It bears no resemblance to the plan purportedly being advanced by Romney/Ryan. There are plenty of tax cuts for the wealthy in the plan being advanced by Willard Mitt, but there are no matching sticks for the […]
Crap Republicans (apparently) believe
Okay, I started thinking about putting this up a few days ago after experiencing convention burnout. This list probably seems patently unfair to Republicans, and (to be fair) not all Republicans believe everything on this list. And Democrats believe some rather astounding things as well. And there’s a larger issue of what Americans believe that […]
The Tubby Balding Radical’s Guide to Diet, Exercise and revolution, YO! (forward)
So.. this is the title of the book my character Jerry is (ostensibly) writing in my play HOW TO STOP THE EMPIRE WHILE KEEPING YOUR DAY JOB. I’ve sort of been playing with this idea for several years now. As usual, it started with the personal: my weight had ballooned in the years after 9/11, […]
“on the grid”: a play about exploitation and world finance
This is one of my ‘orphan’ plays, a monologue about the WTO. I thought about it a great deal after a recent debate on Facebook regarding colonialism and Africa. There’s apparently a significant number of people who believe that colonization of the developing world in the preceding half-century (which by definition has to include what […]
The Romney Plan for Energy
So the Romney campaign has released its energy plan. It looks a lot like the things envisioned by Reagan a political generation ago–lots more drilling on federal land, no nod to conservation or global warming, subsidies for alt energy like solar and wind killed. It’s different from Obama, but not markedly different–Obama is hardly a greenie, […]
Some ruminations on going through Dad’s things
So I’m in Richmond, Virginia, heart of the Confederacy, where locals will vocally remind you that it was The War of Northern Aggression. And the tour directors at the Jefferson Davis Mansion get quite exorcised when you mention that it wasn’t ‘servants’–it was slaves. Other than that, locals are fairly friendly. And the local chain […]
Donald Arthur Kinch, 1928-2012
I’ve been thinking about what I need to say about my Dad, Donald Arthur Kinch, who passed this morning. I don’t have it in me to give the bromide ‘after a long illness’ or ‘due to natural causes’. He’d been having a hard time for well over 10 years, as had my mother, who passed […]
out for a few days
Sorry. The excitement of life is such that I haven’t posted in awhile. There are some things going on in my life that I need to attend to, and maybe I’ll post about them in coming days. We’ll meet back here shortly. Stay safe.
The Brooklyn Culture Jam 