- Aug 19, 2016
- 7 min
Lo and Behold: The expanding ecstasies of Werner Herzog
"The Internet is not good or evil or dark or light-hearted. It's humans. So you have to ask a question about human beings." Werner Herzog...
- Aug 10, 2016
- 6 min
What's Worse Than the Establishment?
A bizarre alliance of opportunists and kooks on the extreme Right and Left is beginning to emerge. We ought to start taking a look at, as...
- Aug 5, 2016
- 6 min
I Regretfully Decline: Passing on the Green Party's Invitation
Could there be block parties 'bout which I don't know? Maybe they're in neighborhoods where I don't go Could there be all these parties...
- Jul 27, 2016
- 4 min
Facing The Entertainment of Chaos; or Spreading Guilt As Loaves and Fish
“The sight of hell torments will exalt the happiness of the saints forever. . .Can the believing father in Heaven be happy with his...
- Jul 12, 2016
- 4 min
May Day and The United States
Following the United Kingdom's irresolute resolution to leave the EU, commentators from either extremes of the Atlantic were sure to...
- Feb 26, 2016
- 4 min
Shirley Collins: Hello Old England
Adieu to Old England, adieu and adieu to some hundreds of pounds if the world had been ended while I had been young my sorrow I'd never...
- Feb 15, 2016
- 8 min
Goodbye and Hello, Old Original
Whatever you think of the opinion, Justice ÂKennedy is now the Thurgood Marshall of gay rights. [Nods.] I don’t know how, by your lights,...
- Jan 27, 2016
- 8 min
Laughing, until we find out what's going on
Then I asked: 'does a firm perswasion that a thing is so, make it so?' He replied: 'All poets believe that it does, & in ages of...
- Jan 17, 2016
- 3 min
A Healthy Record
Yesterday Politico reported that a Hillary Clinton "surrogate" was planning on calling for the release of Bernie Sanders's medical...
- Jan 11, 2016
- 5 min
That's pretty freaky, Bowie
NOTE: This post was written about 12 hours before I heard the news of David Bowie's death. Of course, the new album takes on quite a new...
