Recent Blog Entries:

Transforming America's Energy Future: A Speech by Al Gore

Bye Bye Bush: Europe's Parting Feelings as Reported in THE WEEK

The Sweetness of Prophetic Speech: From the Striking Image in Ezekiel

Ariana's Excellent Advice to Barack

Torture and the Rule of Law: Greenwald's Thoughts Prompted by the New Book THE DARK SIDE

McCain, Foot in Mouth: A Telling Snippet from Daily Kos

Hollywood's Hero Deficit: James Bowman in the American

The Iraqi Leadership and the Call for a Timetable for American Withdrawl: James Hefferman on Huffington Post

Brother's Keeper: Chapter 4 of Not So Straight*and*Narrow

The Promise and Peril of the Obama World Tour: John Dickerson on Slate.com

Staying with the Shakiness: More About Seeking Peace of Mind Amidst Insecurity

Impeachment Hearings: A Win Is a Win-- Dave Lindorff on Common Dreams

Corporate Media Collude with Democracy's Demise: Speech by Bill Moyers

The motivation for blocking investigations into Bush lawbreaking: Greenwald Provides Illumination

The Prophetic in Today's America: An Exchange Between David R. and Me

The New Yorker's Satirical Obama Cover: Jack Shafer, on Slate.com, Writes a Most Obtuse Piece

Tabula Un-Rasa: David Spangler Writes on *The Projection of Barack Obama*

The Unitary Executive Congress: David Bromwich Bewails the Congressional Cave-In on FISA

McCain's Low Road To Victory: Drew Westen on the Gathering Campaign to Play on Voters' Unconscious Fears of Obama

By Their Fruits: Chapter 3 of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT*AND*NARROW

The Prophetic Voice: A Passage from Jeremiah

Time for a Grand Inquest into Bush's High Crimes: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post

The Economy Under Democratic and Republican Presidents: From a Marketwatch interview of Marshall Loeb

Unequal America: Article from Harvard Magazine About Growing Rich/Poor Income Gap

Reaganism and the Energy Crisis: Article by Richard Cohen

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Individual in Isolation is "a Convenient Fiction"

Waxman Threatens Mukasey With Contempt Over Cheney*s FBI Interview on CIA Leak Probe

The Contrasting Gambling Styles of McCain and Obama: Article from Time Magazine

David Broder, Clueless Dean of the Beltway Press: Greenwald Continues His Exposure of the Media Blindness

How Obama can Lessen the Intensity of the Opposition: Jeff Greenfield in Slate.com

The Mind and the Obama Magic: George Lakoff's Analysis and Recommendation

Seeking Peace of Mind Amidst Insecurity: Reflections on a Spiritual Challenge

Anxious in America: Tom Friedman on America on the Economic Skids

Jim Wallis on Obama's Faith-Based Proposals

What Makes Something Good: Chapter 2 of Not So Straight-and-Narrow

Chief Justice Roberts, the 2008 Election, and the Future of Law in America: Jeffrey Rosen Article

Scenes of Coming Attractions: Not So Straight-and-Narrow, My Book on the Question, *How Well Can We Know What's Right to Do?*

Is the Press Stupid or What? Probably What. The Handling of Wes Clark's Remark about McCain

Does the Housing Bubble Have to Pop?: A Debate Between Dean Baker and Robert Kutner

Barack, You’ve Lost Your Way

Don't Worry About Obama's Brand For God's Sake!: Thomas de Zengotita on Huffington Post

*Moving to the Center* Is Foolish: Glenn Greenwald on the Illusion that Catering to Bushite Terrorism Policy is Politically Required

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Holiness in the Book of Leviticus

The Republicans and the Terrorism Card: Frank Rich on this Charlie Black Affair

Which Catch Phrases Should be *Thrown Under the Bus"? Ron Rosenbaum on Slate.com

Is It Smart Politics: A Question about Obama's Recent Policy Moves

America's Scary Non-Voters: Survey Finds Rise of Alarming Values among the Politically Uninvolved

Three Pieces on the Obama "Pragmatism"-or-"Betrayal"

The Cult of Che: Paul Berman on Our Warped Ideas of Glory

America's Next Chapter: Gary Hart in the New York Times

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On Putting Neighbor Back into Neighborhood

More Phony Myths: Maureen Dowd on Rove on Obama

Life Is Good, So Why Do We Feel So Bad? A Really Bonehead Op/Ed from the Wall Street Journal

In Defense of (Some) Pornography

The Shadow Platform: Robert C. Koehler Decipihers the Dark Republican Attacks on Obama

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On the Chemistry of Love and Attachment

What the Bushites Want in Iraq: Article by Pepe Escobar

Teaching People Financial Irresponsibility: David Brooks in the New York Times

Greenwald Denounces Obama's FISA Cave-in: I Agree, I Don't Like It, and I Don't Get It

How People Protect Their Most Cherished Beliefs: A Biblical Case in Point

What's the Oil/Environment Trade-Off: Dean Baker Presents Some Numbers

Leahy Announces Opposition to House FISA Bill

This is a Moment of Truth in America: Say Yes to What Obama Represents

Greenwald Mounts Campaign Targeting Enablers of Telecom Immunity

Biden as Possible Veep Choice: E.J. Dionne in The American Prospect

How Obama Can Fight On National Security: Seth Colter Walls on Huffington Post

Hanging by a Thread: Scott Lemieux on the Fragile Victory Last Week in the Supreme Court

America’s Dangerous Imbalance of Power

Frank Rich on Obama vs. McCain

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Butterfly Effect and the Limits of Human Knowledge

Polarizing on Global Warming along Party Lines

The End of the End of History: Robert Kagan on the Return of a World of Ideological Conflict

Opinion Around the World on the U.S. and Its Presidential Candidates

*The Treaty of Lisbon Betrays Original Vision for European Union,* Says European Socialist to the People of Ireland

Dan Rather Blasts Today's Corporate News Organizations

Obama Shows His Punch: Borosage on the Candidates' Sparring over the Economy

An Exchange with a Member of My Virginia Radio Audience

Why We Need Another Recount: Piece by Mark Crispin Miller

A Glimpse into Wes Clark, Potential Obama Running-Mate

Network News Anchors Praise the Job They Did in the Run-up to the War: Greenwald Piece

Who Should Be the VEEP Pick? (I'm Thinking about Chris Dodd)

A Gift to the G.O.P.: Bob Herbert in the New York Times

Obama Should Challenge McCain to a "National Security Match-Up"

A Way to Respond to Political Emails: A Worthwhile Contribution from Jim Oberg

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: On the Pristine Forest of Biolowieza Puszcza

Karl Rove and the Siegelman Case: A NYTimes Editorial

Presidential Simulations: An Idea Presented Before that Lays the Foundation for a Big Piece I'll Run Here Tuesday

Schmookler on the Market System: Here in a Nutshell

What Voters Saw Tuesday Night: Drew Weston on Huffington Post

The Truth About the War: New York Times Editorial

Lieberman, Speaking of the *Democrat Party" Reveals Himself: Piece by Kos

The Republicans Will Campaign --Divisively-- as the Party of *Real Americans*: Mark Schmitt in The American Prospect

Two Commentaries on Hillary and Her Latest Moves

*I'm Not Bush's Third Term*: On McCain's Primetime Tuesday Speech

The Hillary Matter: It Is All Part of the Same Spititual Struggle in America Today

"The World Never Seemed Quite Right Again"

Obama's Present Weakness: Some Thoughts

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Smoking, Quitting Smoking, and the Group

McCain’s McClellan Nightmare: Frank Rich in the New York Times

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Many and the One, the Hero and the Chorus, the King and the People (more from LOVE'S BODY)

Discussion Question: What Can Obama Do Now to Rekindle the Sense of Hopeful Possibility?

Bad News for Republicans: It's Their Positions on the Issues that Voters Hate Most

Discussion Question: If the Hillary/Barack Dynamic Were Playing Out in the Republican Party

Former Prosecutors Challenge White House Immunity Claim

Moyers on Democracy and the State of America

A Piece (Not By Me) Proposing Another Veep Pick

Confessions and Revelations: Greenwald Piece on the Deepening Picture of Media Corruption

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Oliver Sacks Describes How Music Helped a Damaged Woman to Move

A Persuasive Piece on Why Webb Ought not be Obama's Veep

Video of Obama Tying McCain to Bush, Plus My Thoughts About Where Obama's Campaign Strategy Should Go From Here

Is Clinton's Strategy Now to Assure Obama Loses in November? Yes says Ezra Klein in the American Prospect

Reverend Hagee and the Theodicy Issue: Do People Like Hagge Get Unfairly Condemned for Their Theological Beliefs

Prisoner Abuse Reported by the F.B.I.: New York Times Editorial

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Integrative, Holistic Impulse at the Core of Goethe's Thought and Art

Go Ahead, Make My Day: Hillary May Give Obama a "Sister Souljah Moment"

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Mating and the Pattern of *Ripeness*

Stop Yelling at Hillary to Stand Down and Start Yelling at the Superdelegates to Stand Up: Ariana Huffington on Huffington Post

Head Winds and Tail Winds: A Metaphor

Jim Webb on the Culture of Scots Irish in Appalachia: Obama's Challenge is Something Other than Pure Racism

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Blessed Be the Tie that Binds

The Toxic Thinking of the Right Infects the Body Politic: Ariana Huffington Piece

Back in the Saddle: Returned from Travels

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Cancer Seen in an Evolutionary Context

Obama's Transformation and Consolidation of the Democratic Party: Major Piece by Matt Stoller on Openleft.com

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Connection Through The Generations

McCain Signals Breaking with the Ways of Bush: New York Times Editorial

On Why People Kill People Over Belief Systems

Inherent Contempt for Rove: An Email from Congressman Wexler

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Symbolism and the Making of Connections (from N.O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)

*American* as a Wedge Issue: Harold Myserson on the GOP Election Message

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Wholeness as Appealing, Wholeness as Empowering

Conyers Mounts Opposition to Iran Attack: Letter Published on Truthout

McCain embraces Bush's radical views of executive power: Glenn Greenwald Piece

Two Women --Jean Houston and Barbara Ehrenreich-- Discuss Hillary Clinton

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Human Propensity to Hear the Pattern of Rhythm

Too Much Focus on One Individual?

Is A 'Unity Ticket' A Good Idea? A Debate on The New Republic Website

Honoring the Emotions that Give Life to Liberal Principles: Nick Bromsell in The American Scholar

Arianna Huffington on How Far McCain has Fallen

Hard Fouls: Brief True Tale of a Basketball Game

Personal Attacks and the Critique of Those Attacks: Glenn Greenwald Defends Himself Against the Charge of Hypocrisy

I, Too, Have Been Damaged by the Evil Bushite Forces

The Abominable Debate and What It Showed about the Media: Frank Rich in the NYTimes

You Can Hear Me on the Radio This Evening

Two Paths Converge on the Way to the Sacred: My Wife, April, on Two Big Life Changes

Lullaby of Bagdad: Paul Starr in American Prospect on the Mess in Iraq

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How People Are Influenced by Those Around Them

Who Will Tell the People?: Tom Friedman on the Decrepit State of the Nation

What Happened to Hillary at the Level of the Spirit

"Spiritual Transformation" by Other Names: An Exchange I Had on Opednews

The Media Make Mischief to Weaken the Democrats: Eskow Piece on Huffington Post

Some Information, and Some Thoughts, about Electability

For Your Amusement: An Exchange on Opednews.com About Obama's Hidden Muslim Agenda

Ariana Huffington vs. Howard Kurtz on *Self-Loathing Liberal Media*

Making the Race One about Spiritual Transformation

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "Magical" Thinking and the Perception of Patterns

"Long National Nightmare" is What Obama Should Be Talking About

Our Long National Nightmare: Thoughts of Now and of 1974

Americans Can Talk Only with Those Who Already Agree: Susan Jacoby Article and Schmookler Interpretation

Obama Gets Reasonable Advice from --of All People!-- Karl Rove

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Understanding Our Place in the Larger Order

Thoughts/Questions About Obama's Ability to Defend Himself

Two Catastrophic Acts of Selfishness: One Couple's Enormous Role in America's Tragedy

Are You Aware of the NSB Newsletter?

The Irresponsible Media: Paul Waldman in the American Prospect

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Are We Willing to Align Ourselves with the Truth?

Here's How Obama Should Deal with the *Debate* Issue

Republicans in Senate Protect Pay Discrimination Against Women: Hard-Hitting Piece by Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com

Revisiting the Muddle Through Scenario

Frank, the *What's the Matter with Kansas* Guy, on Bittergate: An Interesting But Shockingly Obtuse Article from Slate.com

Reining in Presidential Secrecy: NYTimes Editorial on How Congress Might Be about to Take Action

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Contagious Interactions Among People

No, It's Not OK to Use Al Qaeda as a Catch-All Term: Glenn Greenwald Exposes a Deceptive Neo-Con Verbal Sleight-of-Hand

*You Can End It Here* This Should Be Obama's Mantra in Indiana

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Here It Is! The Open Forum on Wholeness

The Low Road to Victory: NYTimes Editorial on the Hillary Clinton Campaign

Hillary and Iran: Olbermann Missed the Point

The Democrats Must Not Reward Hillary

Obama Refuses to Schedule N.C. Debate: I Approve

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: My Own Experience of Extraordinary Knowing

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Denial of our Wider and Deeper Knowing

Two on the Effort to Tie Obama to Hamas: A McCain Fundraising Letter and a Gary Hart Article

What Will Happen Legally with the Bushites and Their Torture? A Piece by Spencer Ackerman

Majority of Historians Rate the Bush Presidency the Worst Ever

The Latest in Global Warming Denialism: Jonathan Chait in The New Republic

Dear Barack: Non Carborundum Illegitimatum

Two Speeches on Race: Garry Wills Compares Speeches by Obama and Lincoln

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Eros and Unification (from N. O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)

Just a Reminder: The Open Forum on Wholeness is Coming Soon

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Goleman on the Human Connection

John Yoo: Spearhead or Scapegoat? Glenn Greenwald Article

Will the Constitution Be Altered to Eliminate Key Liberties?

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Dance of Polarization

Some of My Thoughts About How Obama Might Utilize the Recent "Bitterness" Flap

A Bitter Pill To Swallow: Dylan Lowe (on Huffington Post) on the Obama Flap

I Am Speaking Tomorrow in Santa Fe: Anyone May Attend

Obama's Gaffe: Is There an Opportunity Here for Another Important Speech

The Torture Memo: Excellent Piece on an Investigation of the Bogus *Legal* Memos *Justice* Provided Bush

Communing with Nature Less and Less: Article from World Science

Hillary's Mistake: It Turns Out that Nice Guys Do Better

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Invitation to the NSB Community to Go Deep

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Rhythm and the Channeling of Tourettes (Oliver Sacks)

When the Upholders of Law Are Declared Criminal: A Piece by Scott Horton From Harper's Magazine

The Democrats and Obama and The Politics of Religion: E.J. Dionne in the New Republic

Barr None: Bob Barr May Run as Libertarian, Says Piece in the Atlantic

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Oneness and the Manyness of Life As It Has Evolved on Earth

Interesting Poll Results: Obama the Candidate Most Americans Think Holds AmericanValues

Transformational Leadership: Crisis Not Only Makes It Vitally Necessary, It Also Makes It Possible

Progress and Entropy: Another Passage from the Concluding Chapter of DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY

The Intelligence Cover-Up: NYTimes Editorial

Obama's Remarkable Breakthrough on Economics: Robert Kuttner Asks Why Krugman Can't See It

The Manufacture of Uncertainty: Chris Mooney, in the American Prospect, on How American Industries Subvert Science and Endanger Us All for Their Profit

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Maybe It Would Blow Our Minds, Maybe It Would Transform Us

The Mental Health of Democrats and Republicans: Trying to Interpret a Juicy Fact from Harper's Index

Just Who Is Hillary Clinton? Peggy Noonan Writes about "Getting" Her

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Parental Patterns Perpetuated

Lakoff Describes What Obama's Speech Does: A Piece Worth Reading

Scenes of Coming Attractions: Invitation to an (Important, to Me) Upcoming Open Forum on Wholeness in Any of Its Dimensions

The Dilbert Strategy: Paul Krugman on the Phony Bushite Financial "Reform" Proposals

Expect Delays: An Announcement Concerning the Coming Week

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Two Kinds of Error Regarding Our Perception of Patterns

Sen. Chuck Hagel on Iraq and the "Arrogance and Incompetence" of the Bushites

Extemporaneous Writing Now Unfolding

Leadership and Connecting With People: Another Passage from Obama's 1995 Book

Five years after the invasion, the totality of our failure is clear (from The Independent, U.K.)

When a Nation Has Difficulty Facing Its Past: Japan Still Struggles

There's Running, and Then There's Running Ugly

The Long Defeat: David Brooks on Hillary's Continuing

Two Capsule Pieces on the State of our Financial System by Dean Baker

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Case of the Balinese Cockfight

Buried in the Numbers on Intrade

Beyond the Standards of Apedom (An Excerpt from DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY)

Interesting Public Opinion Poll Data From NBC/WSJ

John Dean Wonders: Was Obama's Speech Too Intelligent to be Politically Successful?

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: How Couples Create Important Wholes

What I Intuit the Reverend Wright Business Is Fundamentally About

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Expertise and the Mastery of Patterns

Here's Who I Think Obama Should Pick as a Running Mate

Fascinating New Idea About the Democratic Race

The Assignment Right Now

Poll Results on Obama's Speech on Race (from CBS)

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Market as a Fragmenting Force

Greenwald on the Media's Distorted Coverage of John McCain

When Broken People Reject the Message of Wholeness

If Bush and the Repubs are So Unpopular, Why Does McCain Poll So Well? Dylan Loewe on Huffington Post

We Need a President, Not Just a Commander-in-Chief: Brewer and Lakoff on Common Dreams

Partying Like It’s 1929: Paul Krugman on the Perils of Our Unregulated Financial System

The T-Shirt of President George W. Bush

Discussion Question for SEEING THINGS WHOLE: What Constitutes Evidence for the *Oneness* of the Mystics

In Unusual Times, Unusual Outcomes Become Possible

"That is Leadership": Joseph Nye on Obama's Speech

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Collective Intelligence (Passage from Thomas's LIVES OF A CELL)

The "Grist for the Mill" Strategy

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Story from Katrin

Reactions to the Obama Speech (Compiled by Huffington Post)

Rigged Trials at Gitmo: Ross Tuttle Piece from THE NATION

Obama's Great Speech on Race This Morning

Admiral Fallon, the Danger of War Against Iran, and the Presidential Campaign

Live Radio Show Tuesday Morning: My Topic Will Relate to Wholeness

When You Hear Hoofbeats, Think of Horses, Not Zebras: A Piece From 2006 about Financial Markets and the State of America

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Earliest Experience of Nurture as Template for Life

Assorted Election-Related Thoughts

The Rise of American Incompetence: Daniel Gross on Slate.com

When Push Comes (An Excerpt from DEBATING THE GOOD SOCIETY)

The Way Race is Playing in the Democratic Primaries: Passage from an Interesting New York Times Article

More Bellicose Than Bush? Paul Waldman on McCain in The American Prospect

House Rejects Telecom Immunity: Greenwald in Praise of a Possible "Sea Change" Among the Democrats

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Human Wholeness-- an Origin or a Destination?

How to Deal With the Darkness: The Key Question Facing Obama

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Isomorphisms in Music-- Feeling States, Artistic Performances of those States, and Audience Response

Spangler and Me on "Winning at All Costs"

Dean Baker on 1) Hypocrisy on the Sanctity of Contracts and 2) Nonsense on the Need for Immigrants

What Hillary Has Now Revealed About Herself

Does Obama Have a Pat Hand?

Schmookler is Available for Conversation

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Unreasonable Kind of Rationality

If I'm Not Ready, Why Does She Want Me as Her Veep?: Obama Makes a Deft Move

Evil is Not a Good Loser

David Spangler Relates His Dreams about Barack and Hillary

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Three Metaphors for the Whole (Taoist, Sufi, and Christian)

Hope and the Latent Power of the People: Another Passage from Obama's 1995 Book

Why the War on Obama: Robert Parry on Consortium News

Will America Pass This Test?

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Our Pathways Into Deep Meaning

Here's How Obama Should Fight Back

I Can Be Heard on the Internet This Evening

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Story of Insight and Healing

Call Congressman Reyes to Stop Him from Caving on Telecom Immunity

BULLETIN! The Thursday Event in Santa Fe is Postponed on Account of Snow

What I'd Ask Obama, and What I Hope He'd Answer

Naomi Wolf's Powerful Statement on Who in the Presidential Race Would Be Best to Lift the Bushite Darkness

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Patterns of Flocks in Flight

Granting Immunity Rewards Lawlessness: Interesting that a Fox News Judicial Analyst Has Written So Right-On a Condemnation of the Bushites

Presidential Simulatons: A Proposal to Improve the Process by which Americans Select Their Presidents

If You Could Ask Obama One Question

Winter of the Patriarchs: Harold Myerson on Castro and Nader

Schmookler is Available for Conversation

Obama at His Father's Grave

The Importance of What the Loser Says: Terence Samuel in THE AMERICAN PROSPECT on the End-Game in the Democratic Race

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Connection Between Truth and Wholeness

What psychological personality tests reveal about Clinton and Obama: Emily Joffe Article on Slate.com

If I Were Obama, What I'd Be Tempted to Say to Hillary

Here's a Job for the Obama Campaign

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Metaphor and the "Very Secret of the Universe"

Obama Shows How to Parry Right-Wing Slime Attacks: Glenn Greenwald on Salon.com

Obama's "Inspiration" vs. Clinton's "Solutions"

What the Hell Are Democrats So Afraid of? Article by Glenn Hurowitz from Alternet

Letter to a Baby Boomer (Written by John Updike in 1996)

McCain as the Anti-Obama: Darrell Delamaide Essay in MarketWatch

Where the "Audacity of Hope" Comes From

The Importance of Narrative in a Presidential Campaign: Paul Waldman in The American Prospect

Schmookler is Available for Conversation

More from Baker on the Poor Bush Record on the Economy and on the Poor Performance of the Media in Covering It

Is the United States Coming Apart as a Society? Some Findings Reported by Robert Putnam

This Phony McCain Bruhaha: An Unworthy Story

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Moral Instinct (Essay by Pinker)

Gambling on Obama is Our Safest Bet

McCain Panders to the Right, the Media Don't See: Ariana Huffington Article

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: This is Your Brain on Music

Obama's Not Naive About Power

The Dems Should Confront McCain on National Security, Not Mirror Him: A Greenwald Article

Padilla Sues Yoo: Bazelon Argues that the Case Has Plausibility

How the Democrats Could Resolve Their Nomination Process (If the Primaries Don't Do It): Paul Starr in the American Prospect

The Clemens Hearing as National Symbol: Quite Outstanding Essay by Stephen Metcalf on Slate.com

The FISA Disgrace Continues: Sins of the President, Congress, and Media Discussed by Me and a New York Times Editorial

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "Everybody's Got Their Issues" (Patterns in Individuals and Families)

Evaluating Changes in the Movies' Handling of Sexuality and Revealing of the Human Body: A Radio Show from Ohio Can Be Heard Here

Congress Has Stood Up for Itself, at Least this Much

Schmookler is Available for Conversation

Manhood and the Fate of the Earth

What Does It Profit a Man: McCain, Former POW, Votes for Torture

Obama and Progressive Change: Article by Dave Lindorff on Common Dreams

Baker Bashes Times for Skewed Comments on Bush and the Economy

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Evil and Wholeness-- Resolving an Apparent Contradiction

This is What I Like To See: An Example of Clinton and Obama Working Together

America Doesn't Need More Cheaters for Leaders

Help Senator Leahy on FISA in the Next 24 Hours

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Metaphor and Reality

A Couple Things from Me: I Had a Dream Last Night, and Man's Role in Changing the Face of the Earth

Liberals Should Make Common Cause with Evangelicals: A NYTimes Column by Nicholas Kristof

A New Geologic Age—Started by Us: Article from World Science

The Republican Lack of Credibility, the Democratic Mistake of Emulating and Capitulating: Glenn Greenwald Piece

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Yes, the Waters are Deep

How I'd Like Obama and Clinton to Campaign from Here

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Reality of Relationships

More Post-Super-Tuesday Thoughts: A Puzzlement and a Defect in the Media Coverage

Post-Super-Tuesday Thoughts

Mass Eviction from the Ownership Society: A Passage from Naomi Klein

Problems of "Masculinity" in the Contemporary World

Thoughts About Obama and the Finding of Fault for the Present Darkness

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Caring About Future Generations

The Choice: Christopher Hayes in THE NATION on Obama vs. Clinton

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: An Interesting Instance of Contagion

Obama Inspires the Young (Article by my Wife, April Moore)

How the World Sees the U.S. Presidential Race: AP Report

The Latest Bush Crime, Committed Just Now in Broad Daylight (Dave Lindorff Essay)

Why I’m For Obama! Only He Can Shift the Correlation of Forces

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Pattern in My Life (Part II)

Greenwald's Version of "The Lament of a True Patriot"

Justice Blinds Itself to the Need to Be Blind: W. Virginia Judge Fraternizes with Party to a Suit

Government Versus Market: False Contrasts at the NYT (A Brief Dean Baker Piece)

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: A Pattern in My Life (Part I)

The Democrats' Praise-Reagan Game: Excellent Piece by Robert Parry

Lakoff on a Difference Between Hillary and Obama

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Cutting Ourselves Off from the Whole Whole is Forfeiting Our Potential Power

More Bush Lying, Cheating and Usurpation: A New York Times Editorial (but that title is mine)

The G.O.P. Going for McCain Makes Hillary a Dangerous Choice for the Dems (piece from elsewhere)

Waving Goodbye to Hegemony: Interesting Piece on the Evolving World Order with America's Current Decline

When Marquee Value Trumps Moral Value: Marty Kaplan Decries Karl Rove's Being Invited as a Commencement Speaker

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Wholeness of Nature

Scathing Critique of Bush from Rep. Wexler on the Eve of Bush's Final State of the Union Message

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: "The Robinson Crusoe Fallacy"

A Question for This Group: How Frequent Would You Want the SEEING THINGS WHOLE Postings?

Announcing a Small Change in NSB's Front Page

The FISA Follies, Redux: NYTimes Editorial

Dems Cave to Bush on Stimulus Package: WHY? (Two Thoughts From Me)

"So Did Jesse Jackson": Clinton's Tactics Backfire in South Carolina

Questions for the Clintons: Questions for the Clintons: by Bob Herbert in the New York Times

My Little Phony: On Romney's "Reassuring" Way of Pandering (Jonathan Chait in the New Republic)

Mass Deception and the Bushite Assault on the Integrity of our Election System: An Interview with Mark Crispin Miller

The Media's Abominable Political Coverage: Another Effective Slam by Glenn Greenwald

How Americans Found Glowing Meaning in the Nightmare of the Civil War: An Excerpt from a New Book

Kucinich to Introduce Articles of Impeachment Against Bush

BEGIN IMPEACHMENT HEARINGS ON RESOLUTION OF IMPEACHMENT OF VICE PRESIDENT: Rep. Wexler on the House Floor

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Zeitgeist as Evidence of Subtle Patterns and Connections

Wondering if My Reaction to the Clintons' Recent Behavior is Representative

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Artificial Wholeness: Justice as the Antidote to Power (Another Passage from THE PARABLE OF THE TRIBES)

This Time --Unlike the Other Time Evil Wrought Havoc on America-- There will be No Romanticizing the Story: A Re-Run Worth Re-Running

The American Media’s Complicit Failure to Investigate and Report on the Sibel Edmonds Case: Piece by Daniel Ellsberg

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Dimensions of Wholeness (A Passage from the Parable of the Tribes)

Refight the Nineties? A Piece by Rep. Barney Frank on Huffington Post

Donations Instead of Gifts: A Report from My Wife, April

Don't Cry for Me America: Paul Krugman on the Nature of our Current Economic Crisis

In Response To Criticism, Chris Matthews Meanders, Eventually Apologizes: Update on Matthews/Women Issue

The Moral Instinct: Steven Pinker Essay from the New York Times

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Order vs. Chaos in the Flow of Events

Chris Matthews and Women: An Issue Raised by Media Matters, A Letter to MSNBC by Me

Low Approval of Bush: The Latest ABC-News Poll

SEEING THE WHOLE: Science as the Discovery of Patterns and Connections

Greenwald on the Right's Defective Understanding of Law (with an E.g. in the Kucinich Case)