Music: “In the Painted Room,” by Karenn Gibson Roc, from the album Touching the Soul Video: Phil Roc: Label: Lemon Grass Music
The Open Mind V: the Language of Conceptual Clarity
Shrink sounds like an enlightened, empowering doctor, the kind I certainly want myself. Do not condescend. Explain everything I wish to know, which will be a lot. Enable me, and provide me with options. And please – please – know more than I do. And the pilots shall fly the planes, and the aeronautical engineers […]
Cobell (Individual Indian Money Trust Fund) Settlement News
Elouise Cobell, the lead plaintiff and driving force behind the now fourteen-year-old Individual Indian Money Trust Fund suit has been issuing periodic reports since news of a settlement of the case back in December. I wrote about it in The Nature of Things. Although the “Ask Elouise” letters, sent to those on the litigation listserv […]
That’s What They Think, Thursday 2/25/2010
Tom Garafalo, The Havana Note – Orlando Zapata Tamayo, 1967-2010 Orlando Zapata Tamayo, a 42 year old political prisoner arrested by Cuban authorities in the crackdown of Spring 2003, has died after an 83 day hunger strike. Jonathan Chait, The New Republic – A Brief Reconciliation Primer As Mary McCarthy once said of Lillian Hellman, […]
The Open Mind V: Riposte
ShrinkWrapped has offered his response to my The Open Mind V: the Language of Black and White. Comments are closed here at the sad red earth and should be made at ShrinkWrapped. Earlier installments of this series can be found on the horizontal menu above. The Open Mind V: Riposte Let me see if I […]