Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Showing posts with label United States. Show all posts
Sunday, September 13, 2020

Mother Nature's Son.

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When I was a kid, my family started taking annual vacations Out West, this being my father's preferred part of the planet in exactly ...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

This, this -- and this again: "The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken."

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I've read it twice and can't find much to disagree with. It's what I've been saying for as long as I can remember, herein a...
Thursday, August 15, 2019

"Militarization Has Become Our National Religion."

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By means of introduction, The Nation explains. America’s twenty-first-century wars have been coming home in another way as well: in the ...
Monday, August 12, 2019

"There are reasons to be cheerful. These are the dying days of a rancid old order."

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On the one hand, the essay linked below by Will Sutton bears a degree of thematic unity with my column last week. ON THE AVENUES: Unle...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Looking for bipartisan consensus? Unfortunately, endless wars fill the bill.

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Follow the money. Follow the money. Follow the money. Rinse and repeat. How to Challenge the Elite Consensus for Endless War , by ...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Achtung Baby: "This fun new book about how Germans raise their kids will break American parents’ hearts."

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I may not have any children, but Germany's always been good to me -- and as usual, you're entitled to my opinion. Volk Heroes ...
Friday, October 16, 2015

Denmark, America and democratic socialism.

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I didn't watch the Democratic presidential debate ... Guess Who Else Is a Socialist? , Timothy Egan ( New York Times ) One of the s...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

Road Kill 1: "Despite improvements, driving in America remains extraordinarily dangerous."

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From the article. "Roads get wider and busier and less friendly to pedestrians. And all of the development based around cars, like...
Sunday, February 08, 2015

Hand me those knitting needles, because we're all truck drivers now.

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See the map change, and read about the most common (not to say "proper") jobs in each state. Thanks to B for the link. The M...
Friday, January 30, 2015

"There is a huge difference between an insult and a threat, and ... it isn’t actually that hard to tell one from the other."

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This isn't food for thought. It's a five-course meal. Two Views on Speech , by Adam Gopnik ( New Yorker ) ... The absolutist Am...
Saturday, February 08, 2014

Car dependency in nine historical lessons, absent an 11th commandment.

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A factual rendering, although it omits the part where God commands Americans to go forth and drive a lot. 9 Reasons the U.S. Ended Up So M...
Monday, December 09, 2013

More socialism to brighten a dreary Monday: 'There are now two Americas. My country is a horror show.'

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Riffing on Eugene V. Debs , Pope Francis and Slavoj Zizek brought me to this spot-on indictment of the capitalist mess we've dug (S...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Garton Ash: "Americans need to discover how the world sees them."

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Read up, tea partiers. You too, KZ. Americans need to discover how the world sees them , by Timothy Garton Ash ( Guardian ) There's ...
Saturday, September 21, 2013

Bill Maher: Is the US the world's policeman, or a schoolyard bully?

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Bill Maher quite simply rocks. The US: world's policeman or schoolyard bully? Ever since 9/11, it seems America's just been itchin...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

ON THE AVENUES: Deity building, American-style.

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ON THE AVENUES: Deity building, American-style. A weekly web column by Roger A. Baylor. To begin, I recommend “Washington: A Life,” Ron Cher...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

ON THE AVENUES: Hauntingly multinational.

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ON THE AVENUES: Hauntingly multinational. By ROGER BAYLOR Local Columnist According to the dictionary, “to haunt” is to visit or inhabit as ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2008

Out and about: At long last, a staggering admission.

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But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself. -- Jane Fonda Writing should be about the int...
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