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Why I’m Taking a Break from Facebook
I took Facebook off my daily login of sites. I will check back every couple weeks, but I thought I would explain why. Most of my most active Facebook friends were posting things about politics. I...
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So I’ve signed off of Facebook, and I told you why a few days ago. Today, I want to tell you why I switched to Twitter as a better social network for my purposes. The reason is simple: I have had bad...
View ArticleA Letter to Ruth
My friend, Ruth, posted a link to this article on Facebook this morning with a note expressing her approval. In the article, Ellie Herman, a teacher at the Animo Pat Brown Charter High School in South...
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Letters with Friends
I have been preparing a business plan all summer for my next book. This will mean sending out press releases, and I want to make sure that people know that I mean them no harm in my book, which I have...
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A Rehash of My Old New Ideas
This is a rehash of my ideas on alienation and belief that I took out of a larger essay on Czeslaw Milosz, which I will publish soon. I believe in repeating myself, because people will eventually come...
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My Preference for Business News
I was talking the other day about how no one ever asks me how I make money in the stock market, while everybody seems obsessed with placing me in a ‘proper’ political position on a 2-dimensional line...
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Steve Jobs’ Culture
The world as recently learned of the death of Steve Jobs. He is being hailed as a hero who virtually created the world of technology we live in single-handedly. He started the first personal computer...
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Response to Adam Luebke
This is a response to this article by my Facebook friend, Adam Michael Luebke, who is, like many Americans, upset by the lack of response to the Wall Street crisis that erupted in 2008. Adam had been...
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My Answer to Bryan Appleyard’s ‘On Andy Warhol’ in the Tale of ‘Four Parisians’
I’m a contrarian, so I’m always surprised when anyone understands what I understand about the world; but it appears that Bryan Appleyard has written an article that aligns so closely with my feelings...
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Another Response to A Friend’s Defense
I just posted this on a friend of mine’s blog in response to his defense of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While I agree with him and the Occupy Wallstreeters that there is something wrong with the...
View ArticleMarx and the Medieval Mind
With the fragmentation of news sources, the Enlightenment ideal has come under pressure. We are living in a world where people feel the need to only read something when they know in advance that they...
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Lana Turner Has Collapsed
Okay, I missed a day. Sorry readers. But I have yesterday’s post today. I’ve been reading Brad Gooch’s City Poet: The Life and Times of Frank O’Hara. Frank was a member of the New York School of...
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Depth of Field in the Pursuit of Aristotle
I was advised very early on in graduate school that if I wanted to get a job I would have to do some original work. So, weighing my options, I slowly settled on the impact of Aristotle on the...
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Why I Listen to Rush Limbaugh
I consider myself an intellectual, so, yes, I expect some blowback to my assertion that I listen to Rush Limbaugh. Even my conservative parents, who agree with him on economic issues, can’t stand him....
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Notes from the Underground
I said the other day that I if you’re not listening to Limbaugh that you’re missing one of the chief drivers of the election cycle and the culture in general. Limbaugh, like his political opponents, is...
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My Last Leone
Towards the end of last year, I finished watching 150 westerns in preparation for a future project. But, as I did when I watched 150 film noirs, I saved a few choice bits for last because I knew that...
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Your So-Called Cherished Life
I had a thought this morning, so I thought I’d share it with you. I was thinking about how I don’t want to get murdered, because if someone murders me, then my life is over. You probably are concerned...
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