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Politics Archive
And, On Piano, Dick Nixon: Music and Anarchy
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 1 CommentWhen then-President Richard Nixon sat down at the piano on the stage of the Grand Old Opry in 1974, he was reinforcing a conservative, polemical wall of sound to help...
Untamable Melodies: Music’s Revolutionary Spirit
Posted on January 15, 2012 | 2 CommentsAlone in the walnut-paneled music room, his favorite of Fair Lane Mansion’s 56 rooms, automobile tycoon Henry Ford picks up one of his two Stradivarius violins. It is 1920 or...
Pike’s Pique
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat social or psychological dysfunctions led UC-Davis police lieutenant John Pike to brutally assault some sitting, non-threatening protestors with chemical pepper spray? Clearly unthreatened and acting with a sociopathic coldness,...
We Need a Little Light
Posted on September 13, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat interesting parallels I’m having this week with the stories I wrote ten years ago as the Slate Diarist not long after 9/11. There was a lot of talk in...
The Fall to Earth
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsTen years later the hallucinogenic events of September 11, 2001, remain enigmatic and nightmare-like. There is no shared, uniform view because our experiences of that day are so disparate. There...
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | No CommentsIn the days before everyone's grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet's greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn't have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
Immigrants, legal and otherwise, fuel Texas economy, job growth
Posted on August 24, 2011 | 2 CommentsThe Washington Post cites several studies indicating that immigrants, both legal and illegal, account for a good bit of the job growth in Texas. Also, they put more into the...
An Even More Modest Proposal
Posted on August 21, 2011 | 1 CommentJonathon Swift went too far in his “A Modest Proposal” (1729) when he proposed the eating of human children as a solution to Ireland’s economic woes and the plight of...
Is Rick Perry Channeling Phil Gramm – - or Clayton Williams?
Posted on August 17, 2011 | 3 CommentsYipee ki yay… Mo-fo. Rick Perry is in! He’s FED UP! and he’s come out swinging. He’s attacking Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, Social Security and Medicare, anyone who is anti-business...
God(dess) Bless Rachel Maddow
Posted on August 5, 2011 | 1 CommentI watched part of “The Rachel Maddow Show” Wednesday night as I was running on the treadmill. (Okay, okay, the treadmill is lame, I know. But at 108 degrees outside...