Lost Art of the Music Video

Not sure if MTV or MuchMusic shows music videos anymore,…

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Happy Birthday Mr. Beckett

Were he still alive, Samuel Beckett would be 111 today.…

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Fan in Praise of Music

Most of the time it’s best to just let the music…

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The Climate Engineering Wimp Out

There must be a term for it, for accepting a…

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To Generate Change, You Need to Create Empathy

Want to know why some Trump voters still support him,…

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The Irony Is Killing Us

Havoc has a name — and a fixed-move-out-date-residence at 1600…

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Fake Is about to Get a Whole New Meaning

Fake news, so much in the news, is a matter…

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Poetry and Painting in the Age of Google

Google Arts and Culture, the site and the app, is…

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The State / Fate of Humanity – March 2017

Here is your present + future:   Verdict:

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The Magical Need of the Artist

It was scribbled in these parts years ago that “it shall…

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Why So Ready to Forsake?

Our planet is so verdant with life we’re still ages…

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Pretty But… Deadly?

We’re nearly at the 17th anniversary of Bill Joy’s warning…

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This Isn’t How Social Media Was Supposed to Be

According to Bloomberg, Social Media Are Driving Americans Insane.  Before we…

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Taking the Bible Thumpers Down a Notch

It’s pretty clear that from right around day one, the…

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Now Arriving: the Future (with Guests)

The real world and the worst of our dystopian nightmares have…

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This Is Happening

The message from scientists studying the effects of climate change:…

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Tech Rules Us – Will It Ruin Us?

We love our gadgets, apps, and Internet. We use them,…

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Ang Lee Pokes at Our Complicity

Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is an important story of…

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Humans and Tech in Harmony

It’s a tech story and it’s a people story. Not…

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Time to Fight the Hard Fight

Things are looking down. Just take a gander at how our…

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Sweetness!

Sublime creative forces are alive and well, and giving us…

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Comedian in Chief

Donald Trump’s tweets, disturbing on many levels, are a real…

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Knowledge Is Power (and Salvation) – Even in Prison

“I continued to search and devour anthropology, history, biology, philosophy.…

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Pruitt a Train Wreck of a Potential EPA Chief

Scott Pruitt, perhaps the worst of all Donald Trump’s administration…

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Facebook Readying Tech to Bring out the Worst(est) in You

Facebook just might be laying the groundwork for mind-reading technology…

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How Specific Demographics Viewed the Election Results

We know how folk of sound mind viewed the results…

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If Trump Can Get Elected…

If a thin-skinned, small-handed huckster as disciplined and cerebral as…

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Small Victory in a Year of Big Losses

On December 31st, it seemed that when most of the…

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Hole in the Heart

The Washington Post reports that “Americans are dying from a…

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Epidemic Defined

If you want to see what an epidemic actually looks…

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The Empathy Project

“He auctioned off the pistol that killed Trayvon Martin. She…

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Some Perspective

As Austin Powers would ask, “What does it all mean,…

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