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Blowout Prevention
On July 17, 2010 there was an incident on Interstate 580, a major East-West corridor in the San Francisco Bay Area, with overtones of political violence. The San Francisco Bay Area is the 6th largest Metropolitan Area in the United States. A middle aged...
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American Mental Disabilities
I remember what it was like in the United States in the 1960s. There were powerful right wing forces in the political culture which in some parts of the country were supported by a large percentage of the public. These forces were partially the remnants...
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Neo-Right - Neo-Nazi
First published in 1942, Franz Neumann’s Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism does more than chronicle the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism to a position of controlling the most industrialized nation in Europe although...
GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS IN CRITICAL THEORY
I find that I receive emails from others on overblog who appear to have never read any of my essays or, if they have tried to do so, have no understanding of what I write. You are wasting your time, I don't read pandering emails, I simply delete them...
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The Drill Goes On II
In my previous article on this topic The Drill Goes On , dated May 21, it was not clear what the magnitude of the BP/Deep Water Horizon oil deluge in the Gulf of Mexico would turn out to be. It appears at this point that the worst case scenario that I...
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The Drill Goes On
I really didn't want to write about this; Nuclear Weapons are still the greatest threat to life on the planet yet, given time, the petroleum addiction syndrome, may produce the same outcome. You see, if it were not for the addiction syndrome, petroleum...
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AT&T: Too Big to Function
A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices.- William James The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety...
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Actions that are Morally Offensive
In their review of cinema, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defines some movies as “morally offensive.” The definition doesn’t necessarily imply that the movie is explicitly pornographic or violent; the term implies that the content contains material...
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The Dream State in American Politics
Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular, that he should have put health care on one side and focused on the...
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The Politics of Reality Denial
If one picks almost any issue found in the contemporary political system in the United States, the motives of one component of the process either support it or oppose it because of ulterior antecedents - to say it differently by motives which they openly...
