I feel compelled to write about something and I have decided to write about trust. Yes trust! Not like trust in 'trust fund' or being able to keep a secrete,but trust in something that it will live up to or ascribe to those characteristics that endear value to an earnest expression of sincerity. Do you know what I mean? D'ya hear what I'm say'n? Can you dig it? In a court of law they

The puzzling question these days seems to be how can we accurately critique incompetence? When John Dean broke stride with Nixon during Watergate, he was seen as ‘the Judas’ of Nixon’s cabinet. Generations later, a tyranny of silence passively condones the banishment of whistle blowers making them examples of what happens when you “rock the boat.” People in power have been demonizing dissent

In a pre-inaugural address George Bush talked of the “capital” this recent election afforded him in his second tenure. Lets take a look at some of that “capital” (the dollar has lost 30% of its value against the Euro in the last 3 years.) that George Bush has said that he intends to spend. As of this year and in the coming decade, the USA is no longer the breadbasket of the world. Brazil/South

Words like ‘entropy’ and ‘the anthropic principle’ suspense us with ‘event horizons’ where we observe (with no control) the vanities of old white men who have closed every door, sung every song and leveled every benchmark so that imitation can proceed without the slightest hint of qualitative differentiation. It’s bread and circuses now and loathsome venality absorbs what is left with a craft

There seems to be two ways that my credulity is stretched to the limit in recent informations. It would help if more of you folks who are trying to escape would stop cocooning and act less like a predictable demographic and more like a citizen and take governance back from those who are entertaining you to death.

The Christian right and the Republican party are acting with the authority of a pope in the middle ages. Along with Ariel Sharon (remember Ariel is the name of an archangel) they are redrawing the lines of demarcation of the world. The only problem here is that the Christian Right has about the same knowledge of geography as a medeival pope. Please remember that Portuguese explorers had navigated

I am reading the New York Times coverage of the Green Convention and I sense a familiarity with the dicing of previous platforms by would be 'sage' journalists, familiar with the court rhetoric of the bicameral system we call Democracy. The Green Party's issues are being met by the vested interests of mainstream media and the same resistance to change forms the reactions of the fine art community

Each day the real news gets more and more depressing. All the hopes and aspirations of an enlightened populace (that we call a democracy) folds into deep governmental complicities of intolerable crimes against humanity. All this deceit has been accomplished under the marquee of “freedom.” Anyone with the sensitivity to object is classified as a liberal, communist, loser, wimp. And besides

Does anyone remember what it was like to have a president who published his first book when he was twenty and got a positive review from Winston Churchill? Can anyone remember what it was like to travel abroad when people knew that our president read a book a day, our first lady spoke fluent French and was friends with the likes of Robert Frost? Can you possibly imagine how proud we were to hear

In 1979 I was approached by a higher up in the CIA who had been active in Latin America. Phillip Agee had just published his “Inside the CIA” and the agent was worried that he was going to be revealed. He ask me to ghost write an autobiography that he could use to vindicate himself with the public at large. George senior was director of the then CIA and my agent was on a friendly basis with him.

Yesterday I was sitting in the car waiting while my wife shopped. I had nothing to do so I began to look for stations on the radio (here in the Gila the pickins are slim.) I came across a rock station in S.E Arizona that was doing oldies with slick upbeat corporate commercials (Sounds like Clear Channel to me.) The DJ announced that the results of a recent survey from Iraq were in and 70%

All through the 70’s and 80’s I made it a point to be around Vets that came back from the war in Viet Nam. I was determined to do what I could and I drank with them, talked with them and opened my home to them whenever I could. It was often difficult and frustrating. I had learned of soldiers who returned from WW II that had many of the same problems. They were often given morphine to

True liberalism costs a fortune and maybe that’s the reason why the poor are so overweight. Here’s my drift. To be a liberal you have to have the time to think. And thinking is definitely not allowed unless you live in a community where exchange with something else besides television is a real possibility. When you watch TV you get the message that you should be eating or working out. If you

The puzzling question these days seems to be “How do you criticize incompetence?” When John Dean broke stride with Nixon during Watergate, his leanings made him ‘the Judas’ of Nixon’s cabinet. And today the tyranny of silence seems to condone the banishment of whistle blowers with a ‘better you than me’ attitude. With so many people vicarious about their expressions of courage which are often

Two statements by Aristotle in regards to our rights that we need to remember these days: “When unequals are treated equally that is injustice.” I am reminded of this when I see fundamentalists put in positions of governance over more qualified players. I believe in the Christ but I am not a member of ‘Club Jesus,’ or Pat Robertson’s TV ministry. You would think that a graduate of Yale

Having been relocated here in the Gila Wilderness the opportunity to deconstruct from the boutique world of Santa Fe is my first priority. But before I do, I must share some observations in regard to the “epidemic” of obesity that seems to stand out from the national trend, here on the fringes of the largest outback in the territorial US. A playwright friend in a New Mexico border town warned

With Hilary running New York, Arnold running California and George in charge of Washington D.C, it occurs to me that getting this blog off the ground might by one of the only avenues of sanity left. Does anyone actually remember what it was like to admire someone for their integrity and not their spin? Erick Erickson stated that one of the characteristics of the American psyche is "better a