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Continue reading →: May the 4th Be With You
Okay, okay, I too have succumbed. 🙂 [and it’s also my 4th post of the day lol]
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Continue reading →: Song of the Day #1937
Song of the Day: 16/16 [YouTube link], composed by David Grisman, is featured on the 1978 album “Hot Dawg“, with a stellar line-up of musicians, including Grisman on lead mandolin, Mike Marshall on rhythm mandolin, Tony Rice on guitar, Eddie Gomez on bass, and Stephane Grappelli on violin. Lilting, melodic,…
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Continue reading →: Mutual Aid in an Urban Setting
With another H/T to my dear friend Walter Grinder, I wanted to highlight yet another article from Boston Review, this one by Nate File: “Detroiters Are Not Waiting to Be Saved“. The article highlights how Detroit activists have turned to forms of mutual aid to meet the needs of their…
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Continue reading →: Learning from Gramsci
With a H/T to my dear friend Walter Grinder, I wanted to share this article by Alan Wald on “Gramsci’s Gift“, which appeared in the April 2, 2022 issue of Boston Review. Wald’s article is a review of Jean-Yves FrĂ©tignĂ©’s book, To Live is To Resist: The Life of Antonio…
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Continue reading →: “Roe, On the Edge”
It’s all over the news this morning. As David Leonhardt tells us in the New York Times: The Supreme Court has decided to overturn Roe v. Wade and allow states to outlaw abortion, according to a written draft of the justices’ decision obtained by Politico. Other publications have not confirmed the authenticity of…
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Continue reading →: Film: “We the Living” 80th Anniversary Preview
My friend Duncan Scott sent me this link to a preview of a newly restored 80th anniversary edition of the 1942 Italian film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s tragic novel, “We the Living”. This is, in my view, the finest film adaptation of any work by Rand. The description tells us:…
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Continue reading →: DWR (6): Market, State, and Anarchy
Today, the Center for a Stateless Society publishes an article by my very dear friend, Ryan Neugebauer: “Market, State, and Anarchy: A Dialectical Left-Libertarian Perspective.” Though this is not strictly a part of the series I’ve dubbed “DWR” (“Dialogues with Ryan”), the article certainly evolved over a period of time…
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Continue reading →: Happy Eastern Orthodox Easter!
A very Happy Easter to all my Eastern Orthodox family and friends! Easter Eggs Complete!
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Continue reading →: Easter Egg Surprise!
So we began the process of boiling our Easter Eggs this morning, and I decided to take one out for a rare omelette with my sister’s roasted peppers. Alas, I did not know how rare this would be! Lo and behold … a double yolk! There is a one-in-one thousand…
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Continue reading →: Holy Week Memories
This date, April 21, has special significance to me. On this date in 1974, I was admitted to Methodist Hospital in Brooklyn—the same hospital in which I was born—to undergo life-saving intestinal by-pass surgery for Superior Mesenteric Artery Syndrome. I often think of that hospital as the place in which…
