“The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay,” by Michael Chabon, received the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. It’s a story that surrounds the fictional history of the comic-book industry. And, yes. It is colorful…
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Playing With the Gutenberg Block Editor
For a fun experiment, I installed the WordPress “Gutenberg” plugin and played building-blocks in the editor. Here are the results of my test…
Daniel Ellsberg’s New Book Calls Us to Anti-Nuclear Activism
Daniel Ellsberg’s new book “The Doomsday Machine” is telling us to step-up the anti-war movement…
High School Students Lose Tolerance for Gun Violence and Take Action
One week after the Broward County, FL school massacre, students are taking and scheduling actions to demand gun control reform…
Democracy Is Experiencing System Failure. We Can Fix It.
Democracy advocates gathered at the first annual “Unrig the System” Summit in New Orleans two weeks ago. Tune in for some rousing speeches…
President Graves: Making Conservatives Compassionate Again
Politics Of Graves “Creator of Graves, cast and crew discuss how Graves is the perfect response to the current political climate.” ~ EPIX Over the weekend, I belatedly discovered the 2016 TV series Graves, starring Nick Nolte. (Thank you Netflix.) While the Democrat Party is still struggling to comprehend that American voters have gone populist, […]
Stephen King Has Me Stumped on the Meaning of Shit
It’s been 24 hours since I finished Finders Keepers by Stephen King, read by Will Patton (exceptional narrator). I’m still dissatisfied with something…
A Progressive Christian Voice: John Pavlovitz
I’m happy to report my discovery of a shining Progressive Christian voice that says “stuff that needs to be said.” It’s the voice of John Pavlovitz, youth pastor at the North Raleigh Community Church in North Carolina…