I bought a copy of the not-strictly literary magazine, The Baffler, last weekend at a Davis-Kidd sale. I had not seen a copy in a long time and apparently it has been on a sort of sabbatical. I am glad to see it back in the magazine racks.
As best i can describe it, The Baffler [...]
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The Baffler returns
Reminding us of the Beatitudes— Sojourner’s verse, voice & prayer for Wednesday, 24 Mar 2010
Verse
Let each of you look not to your own interests, but to the interests of others. Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus.
- Philippians 2:4-5
Voice of the day
Even when they call us mad, when they call us subversives and communists and all the epithets they put on us, we know [...]
How our thinking is “entrained”
David Snowden talks about how our thinking/doing is entrained. I wasn’t familiar with the word when I first heard it used in a podcast of one of his presentations. I think he’s getting at how we have habitual patterns of thinking, of conceiving without considering the assumptions we have taken for granted. It is like [...]
I am a member of the Kennedy generation…
Some commentator on MSNBC this morning used the term, “the Kennedy generation.” I realized, then, that that fitted me. The first time I casted a vote in an election was for JFK for president. I was going to East Carolina and was in Gloucester that November and voted at our polling place, a store in [...]
“The moral core of the health-care debate”-From Jim Wallis’ blog
From his Hearts and Minds blog for today:
With all of the shouting, the fear, and now what often looks like hatred — we are in danger of losing the moral “core” of this health-care debate. That core, quite simply, is that many people are hurting from a broken health-care system. They include the [...]
Bernie Sanders’ take on the middle class and Finland
Last night on his Journal, Bill Moyer mentioned the booklet of emails Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders received when he asked his constituents to tell him “what was going on in their lives economically.” He said he received over 600 replies. He has entitled his booklet, Collapse of the Middle Class: Letters from Vermont and America. [...]
Organize 2008
Today I came across a video of Marshall Ganz on YouTube. The organizer and now Harvard professor has held training sessions for Obama volunteers. On the brief video he talked about being enrolled at Harvard and leaving to participate in the Civil Rights movement in the South and later returned to his home in California [...]