Studs Terkel passed away today. There is a certain sadness in my and rIAm’s hearts today with this news. Studs was 96, and not in the greatest of health the last few years, and, apparently, especially so the last two weeks. So he had a darn good run, and boy did he make the best [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Hero’
Dreams from Barack Obama
(hello? Hello?? HELLO??? Why hello there! Where have you been? Pouring my soul into my work. Oh, I see. Well, welcome back! Grazie!)
Oh, happy day!
It’s taken only 36 hours to hit me. Barack Obama has clinched the Democratic party presidential nomination.
I watched his Minnesota rally speech live two nights ago, and as stirring as [...]
Noam Chomsky: Hero, also* making the universe explode in my head
It was only yesterday that I learned that Noam Chomsky is a linguist and that he works at MIT.
I first heard of Chomsky when I was about 20. In all the time that I have known of him, I thought he was a political theorist and commentator with a think tank organization. The only [...]
Who’s my hero?
So if there were a competition going on to see who has gotten the most posts up in the first week of our starting this blog, we all know j. would be winning. And to that I say, in a sing-song voice: Who’s my (Internet) hero?
I am not feeling that particularly competitive at the moment [...]
