Mar 30 2009
What astounds me, what utterly boggles the mind is how an individual can be arrested, charged, tried, and sentenced in a case where his defense is not allowed to inform the jury that what this person is accused of is perfectly legal…meaning, he was arrested, tried, and sentenced for complying with the law. How, in [...]
Mar 20 2009
Wait a second…they’re talking about us. Something about this smells fishy…
Creationist Master of Science degrees…
Mar 14 2009
By early morning Saturday, only hours after airing, the Jon Stewart/Jim Cramer interview had expanded from The Daily Show’s episode 2.3 million viewership to mainstream headlines. By 2AM, when I got in last night, the headline showed two or three times in my mailbox. And by late this afternoon, the interview began showing on social [...]
Mar 13 2009
Could this be what we’ve all hoped for so many years? And it only took the decimation of the global economy to make it happen. However, California is only pointing out the obvious in that their plan to generate state’s revenue off the sale and taxation of marijuana is what we’ve suggested all along. By [...]
Mar 07 2009
An author’s lineage:
From shaman to prophet to assayer to essayist to writer, creative writing has served an intrinsically social purpose, often assuming the foundations of the social structure. Though the author social value has shifted under the accessibility of television, film, and new media, the author’s social role hasn’t changed.
Narrative is the only [...]
Mar 07 2009
Long before memetics became a professional field of study, writers have written about its effects and used it to their advantage, which is one reason evolutionary biologists and socio-psychologists have turned to literature to help further their understanding of how memes operate. However, in terms of natural selection, most memes have an infinitesimally short life [...]
Mar 05 2009
These stories have been clogging my feedreader for I don’t know how long, and now that I have a moment late this morning, I thought I’d drop ‘em all in a single post. As tempted as you might be to respond directly to the New Yorker or to wherever these posts come from, why don’t [...]
Mar 04 2009
The article has been up for one full day, and as yet no takers. It’s not surprising a blog post on a site no one reads from a relatively young writer no one has heard of would slip by unnoticed in the greater scheme of things. I’m not surprised. A little saddened. Even more depressed. [...]
Mar 03 2009
More so now than in centuries past, writers and artists seem to be operating in a vacuum—not a cultural vacuum, but a social vacuum. There’s not a unifying school or a dominate theory, which has both positive and negative qualities. And while this approach is really no great revelation (Nabokov and Mailer and scores of others have employed note cards in their process), its one of the first to incorporate new media as a tool.