Baca Grande Membership Vote Update. See Baca Blog. . . By Larry Joseph Calloway The anti-government passion that animates politics nationally was echoing off the walls at Jillian’s studio, where I have experienced yoga classes, a Sufi zirka, a feng schui talk, a sales pitch for ionized water, and such. Crestone is not where […]
Category Archives: U. S. Politics
On democracy as entertainment, plus serious things.
The mine rescue resulting in national pride and universal acclaim for Chile was indeed “historic,” but not in the cable news context.
They were teenagers from Japan, summer students at the Shumei Institute near my home. It was the 60th anniversary of the Japanese surrender ending World War II. They gave me paper cranes.
If you want to send a message, go to Western Union, John Ford said. But the message here is not the medium. Suspend judgment and cross that cynical distance.
They could not defeat Barack Obama by copying the words. His message came from the heart, and his oratory used a “trick” that was inconceivable and too risky for most politicians.
Who will protect the right of privacy? The President? The Congress? The Supreme Court? Do we have to pick any of them? How about the phone companies?
George Lakoff, the Berkeley professor who has become a liberal political guru, was recognized early by The Santa Fe Institute, known for its work in chaos theory. It figures.
My post-election blues song: Prayer and hugging, sex and evangelizing, freedom for slaves in the Christian Confederacy.
Maybe I’ve been subjected to too many Karl Rove subliminal Jesus suggestions. Maybe I’ve spent too much time at Christ in the Desert. But I saw a religious context in the video of Eminem’s “Mosh”, on the internet near U.
I got a flu shot for the most indefensible or reasons, as Bill Clinton would say, because I could. Then I felt a cold paranoia starting in my arm: Was this a third-worlds trick?