Recently I attended Tom Peters’ long-running poetry reading series (35 years of consecutive Monday nights!) here in Boulder.  Tom runs the Beat Book Shop on the Pearl Street Mall, and every year gives time for people to take the stage and read from Jack Kerouac’s work.  This year we commemorated a hundred years since Kerouac’s […]

I’ve been posting political screeds for the last month, as the prospects for the collapse of American democracy came into view, but somehow it continues to breathe and remains above ground.  If you attended to those discussions, I focused them on how language gets employed to re-create reality in the image power-mongers want you to […]

As the Democrats retain control of the Senate, and, likely with the Republicans achieving only a slim, fractious majority in the House, the Republicans get to now engage in blame and finger-pointing.  The Republicans even blew the state level races in major electoral battlegrounds like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Arizona, where they fervently hoped to control […]

William S Burroughs One wonders what the Founding Fathers would think of contemporary rightwing media.  Aristocratic and highly educated sophisticates, they thought beyond the kneejerk response of power to pillory or behead anyone advancing an unwelcome opinion.  In their envisioned utopia, you could speak without fear, and the freedom to speak would enable greater understanding [...]