The fall feast was sometime in late September or early October, with about one hundred of Massasoit’s Indians and less than half that number of English who had survived the previous disease-filled winter. It affirmed a recent peace treaty (more…)
November 28, 2013
November 17, 2013
Some folks take most of the resources and produce most of the toxins…for how long?
“It (our inaction) is structural, based on the huge obligations we face from aging populations and other pressing needs for infrastructure, education, health care and the like.’ said the U.S. representative at a recent international climate conference. Hmmm, I thought it was the fact that we have by far the largest and most expensive military war-making machine (more…)
November 14, 2013
I confess! I did it! I studied polygraphs and taught others about it in General Psychology.
1) Use of polygraphs was outlawed by our government a few decades ago because of the high error rate, particularly false positives that identified innocent people as likely liars. Significantly, after declaring this, government made an exception for government itself. (more…)
November 11, 2013
Big Brother is watching you
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” I don’t hide and will speak outright. When the rich and powerful (more…)
October 19, 2013
Princeton Graduate School Alumni Conference — and Paul makes some waves
I wore my “Peace” vest today and it garnered some attention not just for the buttons I wore on the front but particularly for the large OccupyPhilly flag sewn on the back. A few well-honed activists (more…)
September 13, 2013
Reform (gradualism) or Revolution (peaceful, is my goal)
My post in response to Krugman’s NYTimes article:
You suggest “smaller steps” for now.
Well, perhaps anything is better than nothing. Or perhaps not, if just “anything” is offered as the way to a solution. I have reached the conclusion that I would support a peaceful uprising to replace (more…)
August 17, 2013
MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) as a tool for capitalist values and totalitariansm
The success of capitalist totalitarianism (oligarchy) in America would require the elimination of any significant independent higher education, and MOOCs (Massive Open Online Courses) could provide a means to accomplish this goal. (more…)
August 6, 2013
Arrested at Lockheed Martin today (Hiroshima Day, 2013).
Today I walked onto the grounds of Lockheed Martin, the world’s largest war profiteer, in order to ask employees to reconsider their working on nuclear-related systems, including drones that (more…)
July 21, 2013
OUR MOVE – SIMPLICITY and its relationship to possessions, memory, freedom and the future.
A post about moving and downsizing may seem mundane to readers, but our recent move to Media has been a mindful testimony of my attempt to transition to living a simpler life. (more…)
April 19, 2013
What does it mean when the public get entranced by one 19-year-old on the loose in Boston and so we accept a general lock-down of all the citizens of the city and environs?
Here’s my response to some Facebook posts and other panicky things I have heard re folks following the situation that is currently ongoing in Boston. (more…)