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American Winter: The Right’s War on Education and Contraception
Posted on May 30, 2011 | 1 CommentIt’s a shocking historical juxtaposition. The pro-democracy movement known as the Arab Spring is in significant part a consequence of rising literacy and declining birth rates in the Mideast. Meanwhile,... -
The Right’s War on Birth Control
Posted on May 27, 2011 | 1 CommentIf you thought the legislative attacks on family planning and Planned Parenthood were all about abortion, think again. In a moment of unscripted political bravado, Republican State Representative Wayne Christian... -
They’ve Got a Secret!
Posted on December 5, 2010 | 3 CommentsSecrets are gold to the world’s aristocracy. Information disparity is in many ways more important to them than income disparity. That’s why they are all very, very mad at Wikileaks... -
Love and “Lost” in a Brokedown Palace
Posted on May 31, 2010 | 4 CommentsFare you well, fare you well, I love you more than words can tell. Listen to the river sing sweet songs to rock my soul. Grateful Dead, Brokedown Palace The... -
The World is a Silk Road
Posted on May 24, 2010 | 9 CommentsThe history of the ancient trade routes now known as “The Silk Road” is a tale of profound cross-cultural influence among peoples – Chinese, Turks, Persians, Indians, Koreans, Japanese, Europeans,... -
Tea Partiers, Keep Your Damned Authoritarian Hands off of Thomas Jefferson
Posted on April 20, 2010 | 4 CommentsI got an email from the conservative website, Texas Insider, pointing me to a blog by one Bernie Quigley. It’s all about how the Tea Party movement is all about... -
When First Unto This Country
Posted on March 15, 2010 | 2 CommentsYou could see it coming in the eyes of Walker Evans’ Depression-era tenant farmer, Allie Mae Burroughs, and it’ll make you cry, that razor’s edge of a sad smile about... -
Finding America’s Lost Horizon
Posted on March 1, 2010 | 1 CommentIn the late 1930s, Depression-weary Americans turned to a movie (based upon the James Hilton novel), Lost Horizon, about a hidden Himalayan paradise, Shangri-La. In the 2000s, anxious Americans turned... -
Prairie Humanism: The (Just Now) Emerging Progressive Movement
Posted on February 7, 2010 | 9 CommentsTo date, there is no authentic, 21st Century progressive movement. Those may be fightin’ words to some, but I think they’re true. The contemporary progressive resistance arose in response to... -
Be Like Me. Or Else.
Posted on January 18, 2010 | 6 CommentsBrother, can you spare a dime? If you still have one, look on the back of the coin where it says “e pluribus unum” (out of many, one) and ask...