Yes! I have continued blogging even though I am mostly busy with finalizing priority projects, especially finalizing manuscript edits.

Exciting events in Egypt and coolness towards them, among other things, have encouraged a couple of posts.

A season of Mideast revolution worries some Americans: can Egypt be trusted with revolution?

An Ecology of Mind ( Read more... )

2010's almost done. At the end of the year, I'm thinking ahead to my next year of writing projects. There weren't too many milestones with which to measure the past year, since I didn't complete anything major since summer, when I wrapped up a string of essays on civilization, culture, and-especially-education.

However, I did contribute a lot of ( Read more... )

 I find it interesting that I have written more poems in 2010 than I have in all the years since taking a poetry/poetics class at the University of Chicago (about 12 years ago). I knew I wrote more than usual this year, but I just realized the extent of it. Apparently this was a year for working on poetry.

I put up two of them earlier in the year.

Presumed guilty, kept in solitary, forcibly drugged, denied exercise and sheets

"It is clear that Manning devoted himself to checking the erosion of civilization so evident in the recent tide of barbarism. He is a soldier fighting to restore human civilization, a hero who was not fooled by uniforms and nationalism, who recognized barbarism when he ( Read more... )

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Legal procedure and business ethics aren’t too much to expect from Amazon

"This boycott is really not about asking Amazon to go to the mat to defend free speech-and it’s true that this cause is not their purpose as a for-profit organization. This boycott is about their customers expecting them to adhere to the legal procedure for adjudicating free ( Read more... )

Why you must support WikiLeaks’ rights, even if you disagree with WikiLeaks

There is no functional difference between politically sensitive speech being removed because a giant, legalized government bureaucracy regulates the internet, or because officials abuse power to ask web hosting providers to remove it, and they all comply instead of citing ( Read more... )

I have been blogging about  WikiLeaks and Amazon here.

I gave Amazon their chance, and waited for their response to the whole fiasco. Now, I've let Amazon know exactly why I will no longer be a customer or a partner. Anyone is welcome to borrow my language for their own closure message to Amazon, if they wish.

To quote my post:

Don’t like the word “ ( Read more... )

Here is a post on what I am up to these days with writing ( Read more... )

I've noticed that pretty much every time psychiatric malpractice of any kind is mentioned anywhere online (such as psychiatric diagnosis or hospitalization being used to control a troublemaking dissident) someone shows up to say that ALL mental medication is unnecessary quackery, for money or for mind control.

Every time I read it, I have to hold ( Read more... )