Pentagon Shootings: A Quick Thought On “Crazy”

(If you don’t know what is going on, here’s the quick version: John Patrick Bedell showed up at the Pentagon with guns and opened fire on security at the security checkpoint prior to entry. Recent news indicates that he held particularly negative views of the U.S. government, to the point of questioning whether the Government […]

Question For Readers: Audio Rants — Yay or Nay?

I was thinking about this earlier today in response to a book I received in the mail (a good response), and I want to test the waters by asking all of you how interested you would be in the following venture: The occasional rant in audio form, followed by a question. I would say that […]

Anticipating Disaster: Our Obsession With Impending Doom

What draws us to the doom yet to arrive? CNN, pre-tsunami (in Hawaii), donates its screen time not to the already devastated areas of Chile (and elsewhere), but to the image of Hawaii’s beaches, from a distance, untouched, near-pristine. That’s the image that stays on the screen, the reporters anticipating–and building anticipation for us–the disaster […]