 Irene Fowler: Nuclear Arms Bros "I believe that there is a greater power in the world than the evil power of military force or nuclear bombs." Linus Pauling 1  |
 Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell's Personal History of the 1960s (REVIEW ESSAY) Doris Kearns Goodwin's new 2024 book An Unfinished Love Story: A Personal History (Simon & Schuster) triggered a response in me to write my own personal history of the 1960s. The present essay is wide-ranging, and at time meandering. |
 Gary Lindorff: Absence When the birds are here / The songs comes with them / The songs are in the birds |
 Gary Lindorff: Prana: it's not a big deal. Just breathe. Make this a practice, see what happens, share what happens. It doesn't matter who we are or what we think |
 John Hawkins: Series Review: Curb Your Enthusiasm Review of the series Curb Your Enthusiasm, which ends its tenure after the last episode hich aired a few nights ago |
 John Hawkins: Bibi King (a song) Dear ol' Bibi gets the treatment. Gee, can payback be far behind? God help us all. Umma bout to be palestined. |
 John Hawkins: Ruthless Poem Here is a fresh rant from stale buns. I'm punchy. It's an election year. Trump wins, we die. |
Gary Lindorff: The speed demons followed by a reflection
We / I feel like an ant among ants /Creeping along the vein of a leaf /Though a future-petrified swamp. |
Gary Lindorff: interesting anecdote on healing my psychic / dream body (how that works)
So, I think what happened here was I tended to my psychic / dream body and that resulted in eliminating one layer of my distress, |
 Meryl Ann Butler: The Eclipse as Cosmic Muse As I watched today's eclipse, I pondered the cosmic symbolism. 2 |
 Thomas Farrell: Walter Ong, Judith Butler, and the Vatican on Gender (REVIEW ESSAY) In this wide-ranging and lengthy review essay, I highlight the American Jesuit Walter Ong's 1981 Book Fighting for Life: contest, Sexuality [Gender], and Consciousness (Cornell University Press); the American leftist Judith Butler's new 2024 book Who's Afraid of Gender? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux); and the Vatican's just released new 2024 document on, in part, gender theory. |
 John Hawkins: Film Review: The Zone of Interest Review if The Zone of Interest directed by Jonathan Glazer. Compared to the novel by Martin Amis. 1 |
 Cathy Pagano: The Aries Solar Eclipse: Search for Identity The Whale Rider - How to Claim Your Identity Since everyone in the US is being hit by eclipse fever, this will let you know what it all means. And if you take the time to watch "Whale Rider" you'll understand on a heart level what this eclipse means. It's time to heal and figure out your personal identity -- as well as your identity as an American. 3 |
 Gary Lindorff: Me and Woodstock - a moment caught in amber Clark (with his shoulder-length raven hair To kill for is saying, "We're heading for Woodstock. Do you want to come?" |
 John Hawkins: Thought Cops On They Way (poem) The duture is here and is grim. Hard to fathom its details. It may or may not matter if you can swim. |
 John Hawkins: Chomsky, the Sitcom (play) Here is my proposed pilot for a sitcom about the daily foibles of Noam Chomsky at MIT. The pilot is titled "Disjointed." The series is based on the memoir, "Chomsky and Me," by Bev Stohl (2023). |
Gary Lindorff: Say something followed by a reflection
I don't remember you saying anything negative. / But when I read this today / I imagined you turning your pained eyes to me. |
 John Hawkins: Film Review: Perfect Days (2023) Review of the film, Perfect Days direted by Wim Wenders. Its a classic Wenders film. Excellent quiet achieved. |
 Thomas Farrell: Fareed Zakaria on Liberalism vs. Illiberalism (REVIEW ESSAY) The seasoned Indian American journalist, commentator, and author Fareed Zakaria (born in Mumbai in 1964; Ph.D. in government, Harvard University, 1993) has published a timely new book, Age of Revolutions: Progress and Backlash from 1600 to the Present (W. W. Norton, 2024), about the print culture that emerged in Western culture after the Gutenberg printing press emerged in Europe in the mid-1450s. |
 Philip Kraske: The Crocus Massacre, Seen from East and West Who was behind the Crocus massacre? It depends on if you look at it from the East or the West. |
 Gary Lindorff: The teaching of the rainmaker The day has come / I see you anxiously packing / Your spear and your gun / And your pepper spray. |
 John Hawkins: Parasites (poem) Free verse worry about the human future. No worries, mate. She be good. Fair dinkum. |
 Meryl Ann Butler: March 29: On This Day in Art History On this day in art history, March 29, Madeleine Knobloch's artist-lover died in Paris. She was born in 1868, and was a working class woman and artist's model. Her artist-lover was, at 31, was nearly a decade older. 1 |
 Thomas Farrell: Jonathan Haidt on the Epidemic of Mental Illness in Gen Z (REVIEW ESSAY) The American social psychologist Jonathan Haidt (born in 1963; Ph.D. in social psychology, University of Pennsylvania, 1992) of New York University's Stern School of Business has published a disturbing new book about Gen Z, the generation born after 1995, titled The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness (Penguin Random House). He targets smartphones and social media. |
 Katie Singer: Watershed questions Can you draw a map of your bioregion? When does your rainy season begin? In your region, where does rainfall go? Where does your kitchen and bathroom wastewater go? |
 John Hawkins: Easter 2024 (poem) Not so good news for modern man. Are you sitting down. Of course you are. |
Gary Lindorff: Reflection on my poem "Seeing Red", posted on 3/17/24
The 60s was my holocaust. It burned up my childhood to a cinder. But like the protagonist in The Giver, at the end of the 60s, my spirit was rescued by the color red. . |
 John Hawkins: Jesus's Serious Last Doubts for Sax (poem) An Easter sonnet for Easter, Jwsus plays the blues. It's gettin hard to be a savior of a world that don't want none. |
Thomas Farrell: Thomas J. Farrell on His Most Memorable Year (REVIEW ESSAY) In this wide-ranging and associative and digressive and lengthy essay, I commemorate my memorable year of living in Manhattan and teaching English at City College/CUNY in 1975-1976. I focus of four fine people I knew when I was there: (1) Mina P. Shaughnessy (1924-1978); (2) Theodore L. Gross (1931-2022); (3) Edward Quinn (1932-2012); and (4) Sarah D'Eloia (1943-1990). |
 John Hawkins: The Water Sonnet It's world water day. And I feel like flipping a cheerleadr high in the sky! Okay, it's a day or so lter. I forgot. Imagine being a water creature and forgetting water day, f*ck. |
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