Everything that is discovered – whether an idea or a scene – that can earn a buck will be exploited and then ruined. That is the way of commerce in the unregulated capitalistic scheme of things. Only the people, through their government, can control this. And when the commercial interests themselves control the government, hope […]
UPDATE: Note book recommendation from Bob Barkley in comments section. About a year ago I wrote an Uncomfortable Essay for the Peace and Justice community entitiled “The Curse of Cooperation“. It remains on the web at #mce_temp_url#. Scroll down to Essay #5 for November 22, 2008. “Featured” in part at the Essay was the before and […]
My nephew, TJ Hedeen, died during liver transplant surgery on April 15, 2008. He was 36. He had a congenital liver defect. He was a great guy, and left behind his wife, Mickey, and two stepsons, Bryant and Brace. TJ’s death touched us all, but few as much as my son-in-law John Hagebock, a little […]
Sure, “century” is grandiose, since I’m celebrating, here, the 100th blog entry in just short of 200 days as a more or less official part of a blogosphere. (To be “official”, you just have to be foolish enough to get yourself a space on the ‘net, and then post something on your bulletin board. I […]
(As you see this film, I’d like your comments to add, here.) October 8, 2009: We saw “Capitalism: A Love Story”, this afternoon. It is well worth the time, and it’s messages will be conveyed in a later post. Even if you think that Capitalism is all there is, this film will cause you to […]
Updated at end of original post. 11:45 a.m. Friday, October 2, 2009 The bulletin came in about 10:30 a.m. CDT that Chicago was dumped from consideration for the Olympic games. It was the first of the four candidates to be thrown out of consideration for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games. Tokyo was next to go; […]
On the afternoon of November 4, 1995 – it was a Saturday – I was on the way to afternoon Mass at my then-Parish, St. Peter Claver in St. Paul MN. Nearing the church, an announcement came over the car radio: Israel Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had been shot. I passed the word along to […]
Likely since Garrison Keillor’s fertile imagination invented Lake Wobegon in the 1970s, he’s had the mantra: “where all the women are strong, the men are good looking and the children are above-average.” On has to wonder where those “above average” children end up…. Today’s paper reveals that my local Congresswoman, Michele Bachmann, is to be […]
This is the third post of three on this topic. The previous posts are Sep 26 and 28. Sometimes there are valuable lessons to be learned from unexpected persons or from groups that have,deservedly or not, been labelled in a negative manner. I thought of such a possibility on Saturday. The first thing I noticed, […]
This is the second of three posts on this topic. The others are Sep 26 and 29, 2009. In #93, Saturday, September 26, I commented on an impressive gathering I had just attended. In the room there was great energy and interest. I’ve been to such meetings in the past. People are all charged up, […]