• The real message in Hemingway’s “Indian Camp”

    This is another small excerpt from my forthcoming book of transcripts of altered-state conversations with what I take to be the still-living mind that was Ernest Hemingway. The process of talking to Papa proved educational in many ways. Not only did the sessions give me insight into Hemingway’s life and opinions, they often gave me…

  • John F. Kennedy’s Address to the Irish Parliament

    One thing leading to another, I was referred to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum site (http://www.jfklibrary.org/) which among other things contains transcripts and some recordings of various of his speeches. This one, delivered in that last splendid summer of his life, when so many things came to culmination, is a good example…

  • Of poetry and power

    We don’t hear much about poetry and power these days. Here is a 15-minute recording of John F. Kennedy, in the final days of his life, addressing Amherst College and speaking not only of Robert Frost but of the larger issue of politics, power and poetry. http://www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/80308LXB5kOPFEJqkw5hlA.aspx To cite the accompanying blurb: Audio recording of…

  • What we should be doing

    I wrote this up and sent it to some friends last April 2, when the Fukushima disaster was still in its earliest stages. It doesn’t seem any less appropriate a year later.

  • BBC admits that lost city could rewrite history

    And this re-evaluation is WAYYYYYYYYY overdue! Goblecki Tepi in Turkey already put paid to the academically accepted fairytale that says civilization is only a few thousand years old. The whole chronology has been jury-rigged repeatedly, but (to change metaphors) the wheels are finally coming off the model. Wait till the start actually examining the evidence…

  • Jesse Ventura on American History

    Again from PEERS. The official version of things gets presented in the “news” media, and government reports, and political statements, etc., and anyone questioning them is portrayed as a looney or at least a monomaniac. A “conspiracy theorist.” Then, once you start digging, at first you think you’ve gone down the rabbit hole. After putting…

  • oldest-known mounds discovered

    This article from http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-animal-shaped-structures-oldest-known-163202661.html via my friend Michael Langevin.

  • The Cosmic Internet now an ebook

    Those of you who have been wondering how you were going to get by for another day without The Cosmic Internet as an ebook are in luck. It is now available for Kindle on Amazon, courtesy of a couple of my friends, which means it’s just a couple of clicks away. Bear in mind, it…

  • Hemingway: Finding the edge

    Another little excerpt from my conversations with Hemingway, forthcoming this fall as Hemingway on Hemingway.

  • How many widgets?

    Thinking, Fast and Slow I am reading a book by a retired professor of psychology who is a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. Probably a pretty dull book, right? Pretty dull book, wrong. It’s lively, consistently engaging, and useful. It’s called Thinking, Fast and Slow. The author is Daniel Kahneman. A while ago…