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Hearing is believing: The torture memos.

I'm not much more than a semi-fan of John Hockenberry's The Takeaway.  It's a bit too rushed, a bit too sarcastic, and a bit too New York for my taste: but the theme music does serve to jar me awake...
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Temples of Mammon Redux

About two weeks ago I presented a piece entitled Temples of Mammon, the thesis of which was that political battles over the banking and credit systems are as American as Apple Pie, and the sub-thesis of which was that more...
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Kindness is such a wussy word.

How to Perform Free Random Acts of KindnessLast fall, passing through South Station in Boston, I was approached by station staff and given a little business card.  "Commit to Kindness," it read, and on the reverse was a picture of...
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Temples of Mammon

Towards the beginning of the week I wrote a little number under the title The More Things Change the More They Remain the Same.  In it, I promised something more extensive on the theme of the piece, which was that...
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The More Things Change, the More They Stay the Same

The battle between citizens and banker/financiers is as American as Apple Pie. If I wasn't afraid of being accused of being a Francophile (and we know what that did to John Kerry) I'd have titled this wee post,  "plus ça...
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Do You know Versus? You Should, Really You Should.

I'm not sure what I might call Versus.  It's rather like a blog of musical satire, with out a place to put comments (wish there were such a place).  I love satire.  I love music.  Put them together and I...
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How Much Time and Attention does Democracy Take?

I have to make this post a quickie, which in a way will prove its point.  I'm in the middle of grading papers, and I need to avoid a riot by returning them to the kiddies in the next day...
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God has a Lousy Job.

Should the position ever become open, I'm not applying.  Lucifer might be a wanna be god, not aMike.  I've known that for a long time, but it came home to me yesterday when I had to play god for a...
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The Common Man: Where's his Fanfare? IV. Radio...Just like Television Without Pictures.

A short post today, well, at least short for me.  As my avatar indicates, I grew up with radio.  My family was late to television-we didn't own one until 1954, as I remember.  But there were radios.  Great big Philco...
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The Common Man: Where's his Fanfare? Musicals III.

Spring break is upon us and the students are leaving in droves.  I have a couple of hours before I leave campus with my colleague (not to Fort Lauderdale I hasten to add), and this may just be long enough...

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Reader blogA Short, HIGHLY unscientific survey. amike5214 years 10 months ago
Reader blogReflections on a HIGHLY UNSCIENTIFIC SURVEY amike1814 years 10 months ago
Reader blogWikiLeaks: The historians start to kick in. amike2614 years 10 months ago
Reader blogTime to make TPM more Emunctory* (eentsy-weentsy update) amike014 years 10 months ago
Reader blogThe banks build a better mousetrap...I'm going to be a smarter mouse. amike614 years 10 months ago
Reader blogA Wordle-ing I do Go, or Doesn't this Make you Die for Shakespeare? amike914 years 10 months ago
Reader blogMr. Smith appears in your living room on his way to Washington amike1014 years 10 months ago
Reader blogWhy Even the Healthiest Need Affordable Health Care. amike614 years 10 months ago
Reader blogFestschrift for Pseudocyants: I. Thomas Paine and the Rights of Minors amike1514 years 10 months ago
Reader blogAre all Advertisements Created Equal? amike2614 years 10 months ago

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