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But the world spins on regardless Which is lucky for you and me 'Cause of all the places in a year’s ride from here This is the only place to be The FT…
Mar 13
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Oppenheimer, Szilard, and Electricity
I caught the end of the Oscars. Funny, growing up it seemed such a monumental event. In 1960, almost half of America watched the then Academy Awards…
Mar 13
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Illinois Primary Ballot
The phoenix from the flame I have learned, I will rise You'll see me return Being what I am There is no other Troy For me to burn Friday was one of…
Mar 11
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Arendt, Information, & Democracy
Ran across a great interview with Hannah Arendt from 1964. Amazing how relevant her remarks remain, when most of what is said today is worthless…
Mar 8
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Ding Dong
“What a world, what a world,” Victoria Nuland was supposedly heard muttering as she left the State Department upon offering her resignation. Boy, we got…
Mar 6
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MO DC
Raise your hand if you ever heard of Daleep Singh? Not many, a few deplorables in the back. Mr. Singh was head of devising the White House Ruski…
Mar 5
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Joe Costello
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Supremes
I wrote a little while ago we live in hyper-, extra-, and post-constitutional times – comes today's Supreme Court ruling. I didn't realize, showing the…
Mar 5
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Mosaic (III)
Continued from (II)Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Specialists and Generalists The greatest…
Mar 4
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Mosaic (II)
Continued from (I) Today, the screen is connected across the planet receiving and sending instantaneous information and perspectives from which…
Mar 3
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Mosaic: Wiener, McLuhan, & the Politics of Technology (I)
Note: I have pulled thinking from Wiener's and McLuhan's two works – The Human Use of Human Beings and Understanding Media respectively – attempting to…
Mar 2
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February 2024
Ukraine, Year 3
“The war in Ukraine was avoidable,” the excellent director Werner Herzog correctly states in a recent interview. But then looking back at 75 years of…
Feb 27
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Open Convention
Hey man you shouldn’t do that Don’t you know you’ll stain the carpet The FT has an amusing piece titled “Democrats are too scared of a contested…
Feb 25
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