On 7.31.2010 NPR ran a piece that BP was trying to ”buy up” as many possible scientific witnesses in what promises to be the biggest tort case ever to settle…
Everybody loves a good story. A good beginning, a middle and, especially, a good ending. It doesn’t matter if its non-fiction, or fiction, so long as it has that nice…
Listen to: The Persian Gulf Crisis interview with Dan Schorr Dan Schorr’s distinguished journalistic career spanned over six decades, right up until his death last week at the age of…
See also, Archives 64. 1: Don’t Ask; Don’t Drop the Soap I hate parades. To me they harken back to the Roman triumphals bringing back loot and slaves from their…
See DCJ 65. 2: On Teaching and Learning 4.21.2010, and 24. 7: Corporate U 9.21.2005] I’ll begin this essay with an anecdote (an almost sure indication of superannuation). Many years…
Usually I prefer to keep my comments on “happening” events, or “news” to Carpe Diem. But I will break with that here because I have this sinking sense that things are…
You, yes you, you are hereby approved for the new CHINA WAR FINANCING QISA GOLD CARD. Yes, like the U.S.A., you can finance your own foreign wars without having to pay anything…
In the nether locales of the nation, where necks are red and politics is expressed in drawled simplicities, they seem to have a bit of an ideological dilemma these days.…
NOTE: I didn’t see it on the “big screen” (but in HD on my new “JimboTron”), nor in 3-D. And I waited until I could get in from Netflix and made…
America has never gotten over its rather precipitous dumping of its agrarian and small town origins. They linger virally in our national marrow ready to be summoned by next drawling…