The American Left lost its way, and most of its persuasive power, when it gave up making strong moral judgments. This happened, probably, in the 1960s and ’70s when the Left’s ideal of tolerance came somehow to mean even tolerance of positions that were antithetical to tolerance. The Left, by the 1980s, was being accused of censoring Right-wing ( Read more... )

We've heard quite a few politicians declare lately that what they're about is “restoring American civilization.” I've had a difficult time figuring out exactly what they mean. “Civilization” pertains specifically to cities, and since most cities that have grown up on this continent since colonization have been based on models from Europe, I can ( Read more... )

“We can hear the rosters cackling, but we have to go back in to town which is twenty mile away.”
“The bulkiness of it made it nice to see but at the same time the way it was shaped made it be arrow dynamic so it could fly through the air in a perfect spiral.”

"Both require careful planning, planting, cultivating, nursing, wheedling, and more."

With changing jobs and all in the fall, I totally forgot to promo the latest updates to POMOVillage. Follow the link and enjoy!

http://postmodernvillage.com/eastwest/issue27/index.html

I call on all older poets to kindly die,

on all the Greatest Generation schussing dust,

on all the crotchety Boomers stuffed into too tight,

too young dungarees in futility against the wrinkles

to generally step aside, take a dignified dose

of cyanide and make way for the young and the no-longer-

quite-so-young, those few in count but patient

in ( Read more... )

Why is everyone reluctant to call the killing of six people in Arizona and the critical wounding of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords what it is: mass political assassination and an act of terrorism? The shooter made very clear statements online about his political views, and while they may have been more than two standard deviations from the mean ( Read more... )

Wall Streeters proclaim the free market gospel not because they really believe it (that would mean they were capable of genuine belief, or, for that matter of genuineness), but because it reinforces the idea they have of themselves as “Masters of the Universe.” The term was used so often by the fawning news media of the so-called “best and ( Read more... )

So, it's great that people are getting some backbone and pushing back against the invasive TSA body scanning and pat-downs in airports, but slowing things down in the security line is just going to increase travel stress. It won't work anyway: all three branches of government are far more beholden to big companies like airlines than to the ( Read more... )

Do Shriners network on Fezbook?