Mr. Peace Prize Stars His War

It's Trump, and with Trump the outcome is always complete chaos. And that's because Trump is an ignoramus and a moron who cares about nothing but himself. So strap in or bail out.

Someone's Angel Today

"The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions which have been hidden by the answers." – James Baldwin

A Room or an Hour

"You must have a room, or a certain hour or so a day, where you don’t know what was in the newspapers that morning — a place where you can simply experience and bring forth what you are and what you might be."

— Joseph Campbell

William James on Mindfulness

Harvard professor William James (1842–1910) was an American psychologist and philosopher who is regarded as the “father of American psychology.” He developed of the philosophical school known as pragmatism. 

Count Calories and Encounters

NPR, i.e. 'No Point in Reporting'

In a snotty and condescending tone, the NPR journalists said that journalists should not address their audience in a snotty and condescending tone, and should report what their audience wants to hear.

So far, sounds just like Fox News.

In an era when journalists are being arrested by a totalitarian GOP government merely for reporting the facts, I don’t think the problem is that the reporters are insufficiently “folksy.”

“The customer is always right” is a rule of thumb that may work for grocers, but it decidedly does not work for professionals like physicians, lawyers and journalists. The journalist’s mission to provide accurate, important and relevant information to the public, particularly information that the public does not know it needs to know.

How We Got Here

A country where citizens must prove their citizenship to masked strangers who don’t have to prove they’re law enforcement and can kidnap and/or kill them on the spot may be many things. But not one of them is “free.”