Category: Politics

#MEGA – Make the Enlightenment Great Again

#MEGA – Make the Enlightenment Great Again

“Characterized by an emphasis on reason, empirical evidence, and the scientific method, the Enlightenment promoted ideals of individual liberty, religious tolerance, progress, and natural rights. Its thinkers advocated for constitutional government, the separation of church and state, and the application of rational principles to social and political reform.”

The Pestilence of ‘Christian’ ‘Nationalism’

Steven Colbert reported Tuesday that there had been 110 grievances filed by military members stationed at dozens of places in the Middle East that commanders have told them that “President Trump is annointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth…”.

Your Dishonor – Postcard Microfiction

My first real postcard poem in a while. I guess I’ve grown a bit bored with the precomposed printed text blocks so I’ll be doing these again. But it’s election season and I’ve got stuff to advertise so I won’t be entirely giving up on the precomposed text blocks.

Strengthening Baltic Defense: A Unified Approach Against Aggression

Given the news of the day (Several Russian attack drones shot down after flying into Polish airspace) and the general expectation that Russia+Belarus will at some point attack the Baltic states, would it make sense for Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia to have a sub-NATO, cross-border, joint defense structure and posture?

I Vote Because – VoteForward.org

Vote Forward (https://votefwd.org) connects volunteers to voters to increase voter turnout without resorting to partisanship. I have updated my statement that I’ve used on Vote Forward letters and also in my own postcard campaigns. It’s included below. I still have some of the Victory 2024 postcards left and I have been printing out and gluesticking […]

News on the Green Transition

[…] Although the principles of international climate diplomacy suggest that poorer countries, being less responsible for climate change, have less duty to go green, many face strong economic incentives to do so anyway. Most countries in the global south are energy importers, and therefore must use scarce foreign currency to buy oil and gas. […]

Night Notes

“Night Notes”, a poem with irregular rhythm. First draft was 2/2/2017, has been extensively cut down because parts were mostly incoherent. A movement awakened, a crowd exposed.Who holds the loudspeakers? Whoweathers the trolls? How long dothey carry? How long hold the seams?What must think the neighbors, andwhat words do they speak? Whatmethods to mend? What […]

The Revolt, Ever to Collect Its Due

A poem with a more concrete narrative than most from my book Synaptic Syntactic. Read more from Synaptic Syntactic by checking out the posts tagged Synaptic Syntactic. Buy the whole book in one neat offline package with no clicking around page loads at BookBaby or Synaptic Syntactic on Amazon, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, […]