Odin's Ravens

Jim Hampton just gave me this massive volume by one of my favorite authors. “ Privacy ,” wrote Patricia Highsmith in September 1957. “An exp...

Painting by Michael Rimbaud Behind the windows Of that passenger train are Others vivid, gone.

We've got it rough.  So did lots of honest people throughout history, in the plagues, in the Inquisition, in the Civil War, in the world...

 “You suffer, you say, because the people closest to you are distant: this shows that your world is beginning to grow vast. And if what’s ne...

Whatever the “free market” economic theories, it’s clear that the de facto function of American corporate kleptocapitalism is to collude to ...

Thom Hartmann: "In the 1980s, Reagan deregulated the Savings & Loan industry; predictably, within a few years, a handful of executi...

Yes, a university liberal arts education is so useless, I'm sure the rich will stop sending their children to get them at expensive priv...