“Every man, as to character, is the creature of the age in which he lives. Very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of their times.” – Voltaire To learn about the past, the right way, is not to learn dry facts. It’s to learn stories. Lusty, bawdy, hilarious, frighting stories. Inspiring tales, […]
History
On the Peaceful Manifestations of the Algerian People, the Revolutionary Demonstrations in Algeria Today. (manifestations pacifiques)
#Algérie #الجزائر #Algeria These are my thoughts on the massive peaceful demonstrations in Algeria. The ground swells of revolution are always ignored at first by the official sources of information, those which serve official power. Not only in the country in which the revolution is stirring, then those around it. For no tyrants wish their […]
When maps mislead and are cartoons of the territory.
Sometimes the real secret is there is no secret, at least not to those who know. Our worldviews could be based on facts that millions of people know are wrong, yet somehow that knowledge doesn’t impact our actual view of the world. Why do we think that we are somehow going up when we are […]
..sometimes nothing, can be a real cool hand
“sometimes nothing can be a real cool hand…” “what we have here, is a failure to communicate..” I was sitting in Sitwell’s Coffeehouse the other day, Lisa Storie, the owner, installed a TV set a little while ago and permanently tuned it to American Movie Classics. I was initially a bit resistant to its presence, […]