Category: Cockeyed Cynicism
Happy New Year 2017
It’s been an interesting 2016. Tonight (on the West Coast of the U.S.), we hold up a glass and bid it farewell. I started out last year in Auckland, New Zealand. A few months later I bought a house. I discovered new friends in my new town, people I already treasure. I planted a garden […]
Normalizing Fascism and the Loss of Civil Rights, from Dystopian Novel to Reality
“…The invisible webs of Comus [Communications U.S.], drawn taut and singing with tension as Prowlers policed the roads of the nation, sifting the population man by man through psycho-polling research. They kept the electronic computers humming day and night, straight around the clock.” Catherine Lucille (C.L.) Moore (1911-1987) wrote those words sixty years ago in […]