January 2014

There are lives that are simply exemplary. Pete Seeger, who just passed away at 94, led one of them. R.I.P., Pete. We do seem to be running out of the great ones.

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Not much going on here in Arctic-blasted Brooklyn… I began the 2014 campaign with an arguably disappointing finish– but a finish– in the 17 degree [F] Fred Lebow Manhattan Half this morning. At 16 or 17 degrees [F] first thing in the morning, this was actually one of the warmest mornings we have had, or will have, for some time, here in the NYC area. Compared to other parts of the country, this would be quite warm! So… in the “Hello Captain Obvious” Department, we take a look at this piece from our friends at Pravda, on why the CIA...

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Yesterday marked the twelfth “anniversary” of America’s most visible demonstration of its post-Constitutional existence, the opening of its Caribbean resort gulag at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. Somewhere around 150 protesters braved Washington, D.C.’s rain for an event that started across from the White House and proceeded to the National Museum of American History; this account offers a picture (that’s probably me there in the front row in the orange rain poncho). The most poignant part of the event took place after it “officially” ended, as a group of activists “occupied” the interior of the museum, for a human tableau depicting hoods...

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I resolve (maybe) to blog just a little more than last year. That shouldn’t be too hard. Might this be the year our mighty, but nowhere near as mighty as it pretends, nation, finally begins to recognize reality? One of the greatest slogans, in my view, of our nation’s most preeminent industry– propaganda– is from a margarine company whose name I forgot, “It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature.” The sad reality is that, while it isn’t nice to fool Mother Nature, she ain’t no fool. It’s ourselves we’ve been fooling, by believing a propaganda machine telling us of high...

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