Category: and so it goes

• Give Us Your Burned Out Millennials

  The little city down the road from the little town in which I live announced this week that it wants to add 5,000 residents to…

• Glasgow

  Journalist George Monbiot maintains that the only hope we have is to leave the oil in the ground. Leave the coal. The natural gas. If…

• I Dreamed I Saw Joe Hill

  I spent time this week listening to Eva Cassidy, whose music was unknown to me until long after her death in 1996. [h/t to music…

• Obscure Sorrows

  From John Koenig’s Tumbler, and now book, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows. Follow the link to go to a more complete definition. Monachopsis: a subtle…

• Intermediation 2.0

  It’s not news that the health care system in the U.S. is broken. Over the course of the pandemic we’ve seen how ghastly it is…

• History Is Not Inanimate

  This past Wednesday a Tennessee legislator stood up in the Tennessee chambers and stated that the Civil War has not ended. That it is still…

• Indiana: It’s Not That Bad!

  I read Alan Lightman’s Probable Impossibilities and sat for a while with the notion of an indifferent universe. I decided I was pretty okay with…

• I’d Rather Not Be So Complicit

  If you hate the system, and you reject what it represents, and you are against the hierarchies and societal organization it perpetuates, and already regret…

• It’s the Intermediaries

  Jon Michael Greer writes about what he calls the metastatic growth of intermediation, a phrase that furrowed my brow for a bit until I worked…

• The Fate of Peasants

  At what point will we call the folks fleeing the drought-stricken west and southwest “climate refugees”? And are they really going to Duluth, or is…