Recent Blog Entries:

Anger vs. Steadiness in the Crisis: Joe Klein in Time Magazine

Obama's Preemptive Move Against McCain's Coming Smear Campaign: A News Article from the Washington Post

Make-Believe Maverick: Tom Dickinson in Rolling Stone

We Must Examine More Closely the U.S./Russian Relationship, Stephen F. Cohen

Restoring Good Order to a Disturbed Land: Introductory Thoughts

You Can't Infer Politicians' Beliefs from their Actions: Important Critique of the Press from Dean Baker

Memo to Joe Biden: Let Palin Talk -- Nate Silver on FiveThirtyEight.com

Wall Street's Just Deserts: Harold Meyerson in the Washington Post

McCain Is Stuck With Palin: Nate Silver on Fivethirtyeight.com

Does This Mean I Was Right? A Discussion Question about the Financial Markets and the Bushite Darkness

Is this Bailout Unnecessay? James K. Galbraith Thinks So

What Obama Must Do to Keep the Momentum: Drew Westen on Huffington Post

The Bailout Failed to Pass, Now What? Chadwick Matlin in Slate.com

Paul Newman: A Class Act ...Dahlia Lithwick in Slate.com

Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous: Greg Sargent at Talking Points Memo

The Evolution this Week of Krugman's Views of this Evolving Bailout Scheme

Obama on McCain's not Being on Your Side

Ongoing Thoughts

Some Quick Thoughts of Mine on Last Night's Debate

Difficulty Factor: Chapter 8 --the Last Chapter-- of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW

Know-nothingism as Decried by Sam Harris in NEWSWEEK

Two Pieces on Palin and McCain: Interesting but Less than Fresh Articles by Frank Rich and Fred Kaplan

The Social Animal: David Brooks in the NYTimes on the Excessive Individualism of the Republican Worldview

A Citizen's Bailout Plan, from Robert Borosage on Huffington Post

Russia's Paying an Economic Price for the Georgian Invasion: Julia Ioffe in The New Republic

Barack Obama, John McCain and the Language of Race: Brent Staples in the New York Times

A Piece of Advice for Obama: A Brief Essay by Me (ABS)

The Party is Over: Pat Buchanan Piece, Followed by Schmookler Critique

Why All This Lying Really Matters: Paul Krugman in the New York Times

Critique of this Federal Bailout: Sebastian Mallaby of the Washington Post

Hard Truths About the Bailout: New York Times Editorial

McCain Calls for Our Health Care to Be Organized Like Our Banking: Revealing Mini-Piece by Paul Krugman

What Liberals Don't Get about Why People Vote Republican: Jonathan Haidt on Edge.org

"Enough Is Enough!": Paul Slansky Says This Should be Obama's Mantra

The Dishonesty of Financial Institutions, the Incompetence of Policymakers: Joseph Stiglitz on the Roots of Our Financial Crisis

The Politics of Contempt: Paul Waldman on the Emotional Energy of the Palin-Loving Republican Base

How Sound Are the Fundamentals of Our Economy? Daniel Gross in Slate.com

Winning Vs. Building: An Extremely Insightful Statement by David Spangler

I Commend to You this Archived Radio Broadcast

How To Debate a Girl, and Win: Dahlia Lithwick's Advice to Joe Biden

The "One of Us" Phenomenon and the Palin Bounce

Where Is Russia Heading? A Handful of Experts Offer Their Assessments

Turns Out the Radio Show is Tomorrow (Tuesday)

What Does McCain's Recent Success Say about America's Moral Condition? Nothing Good

How Much Correlation Is There Between How Liveable and How Liberal American Cities Are? Asking for a Bit of Research Help from the Readers Here

You Can Hear My Radio Show Tomorrow Morning Live on the Web

Gay Sex Trumps Corruption on Senate Sin List: Margaret Carlson on Bloomberg.com

The Value of Daydreaming: Jonah Lehrer in Boston.com

Lakoff's Latest Advice to the Obama Campaign

The Brain-Dead Media Cannot Hear Obama's Message: Eric Alterman in The Nation

Other Voices Expressing the Same Agonized Frustration with Obama's Dispassion

The Overprotection of Children: A Piece from the U.K.

Combatting Republican Propaganda Is Core to Addressing ALL Our Problems

Questions About the Validity of Recent Polls Favorable to McCain: Seth Colter Wallis on Huffington Post

A Statement from Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: From an Interview on Democracy Now Radio

Obama's Restraint is Deliberate: Observations Regarding Olbermann's Interview of Barack Obama

Russia Calls NATO’s Bluff: William Pfaff on Truthdig.com

Will the Democrats Once Again Allow a One-Sided War about Character to be Waged Against Them? Another Strong Argument from Glenn Greenwald

Contrasting the Two Conventions: Mark Schmitt in The American Prospect

Russian Blunder, Not Russian Triumph: The Georgian Conflict as Interpreted by Fareed Zakaria

Polls Suggest Few Clinton Supporters Will Be Won Over by Palin's Being on the GOP Ticket

How the Republicans Win: Essay by Robert Parry on Smears, Dirty Tricks and October Surprises

HAUNTED: A Narrative that Raises Questions about the Nature of Meaning and Value

Meet Jane Doe: Harold Myerson on Palin and her Convention Speech

Illegal Mad Cow Testing: Where are the Free Marketers? (Small, Juicy Tidbit from Dean Baker)

Want to Protest this Muzzling and Intimidation of the Press? Here's a Way

Joe Klein's No-Nonsense Piece on McCain's Post-Palin Rage Against the Press

Lakoff Warns Dems: Palin Can Resonate with Voters at the Emotional Level to Which the GOP Has Pitched its Winning Campaigns

The Bush Administration Falters in a Geopolitical Chess Match in the Caucasus: Michael Klare on TomDispatch

What The Palin Pick Means For Evangelicals: Alan Wolfe in The New Republic

Greenwald on the Federal/Police Raids on Protesters in Minnesota: More Demonstration of How the Rule of Law Teeters in Today's America

John, Don’t Go: Paul Krugman on the Political Meanings of this Hurricane

Is This Why Americans Are So Prone to Fear? (Schmookler writes again)

The Traffic Guru: Fascinating Essay from the Wilson Quarterly

McCain's Hail Mary Pass: William Greider on McCain's Veep Pick

The Oprah-fication of Michelle Obama: From the Editorial Board of the New York Times

The Troubled Tourist: Gershom Gorenberg on the Ubiquity of Narrow-Minded Nationalisms

Drew Westen on *What Obama Needs to Do in Denver*

Why McCain's Wealth Matters: Jared Bernstein on Huffington Post

What Obama Needs to Do Now: Frank Rich in the New York Times

Who started Cold War II? Piece by Pat Buchanan

As If: Chapter 7 of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW

It's Not About the Medals: Paul Waldman on the Olympics and What's Special About America

Obama's Extraordinary Party-Building: Piece from the American Prospect

The Challenge of Affluence: A Root of Our Moral Crisis

Overhyping Georgia: Matthew Yglesias in The American Prospect

Obama Needs to Play Offsense on the Economy: Nate Silver in the New Republic

The Great Illusion: Krugman on What the Georgian Conflict May Portend About Globalization

Dean Baker Skewers the Wash Post for Special Pleading for Rich Financiers

Russian Aggression and the Bushite American Precedent: Juan Cole in Salon.com

Corrupting Habit: Morris and Altschuler on Why the Media Cover Politics as They Do

McCain's Policy Apathy: Josh Patashnik in The New Republic

Mikhail Gorbachev Says Russia Had No Choice

A Slow-Mo Meltdown: Paul Krugman on our Economic Woes

The Bush administration's feckless response to the Russian invasion: Fred Kaplan in Slate.com

An Antidote Obama Should Use: Drew Westen on Huffington Post

World Inaction: Anne Applebaum on the Outbreak of the Russian-Georgian War

Shall We Be As Gods? Chapter 6 of My Book NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW

Study Shows Networks Harder on Obama than on McCain

What the Democrats Should Do on Foreign Policy: Another Passage from Samantha Powers

By Their Fruits: A Commentary Delivered on Public Radio at the Beginning of 2005

Low Road Express: NY Times Editorial on McCain's Disreputable Rovian Campaign Tactics

The Wave of "Capitol Crimes" Continues: Moyers and Winship on Truthout

Running While Black: Bob Herbert in the New York Times

It's Been a Good Couple of Weeks for Evil in America

The Long-Standing Approach of American Conservatives to National Security: A Passage from Samantha Powers New York Review Essay

McCain's Attack Campaign: Paul Harrison in The Observer

Trying to Save the Planet: Paul Krugman Worries about the Politics of Energy and the Environment

NoneSoBlind in August

Playing With the Devil: Chapter 5 of My Book, NOT SO STRAIGHT-AND-NARROW

The Republican Tactic of Blaming the Democrats for the *Do-Nothing* Record of Congress: Robert Borosage on Huffington Post

Obama as Foreign Policy Realist: By Fareed Zakaria in NEWSWEEK

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: The Id as a Sea of Energy that Transcends the Individual and Embraces All Mankind (from N.O. Brown's LOVE'S BODY)

Will They Now Succeed in Swiftboating Obama?

Moral Endo-skeletons and Exo-skeletons: A Perspective on America's Cultural Divide and Current Crisis

Will Congress Rebuff the Supreme Court's Anti-Consumer Activism? Simon Lazarus in the American Prospect

Obama-McCain Matchup: Blowout Or Trench Warfare? Thomas B. Edsall on Huffington Post

The Denunciations of the Prophets of Old Fit Our Times as Well: A Passage from the Book of Amos

Is China the Next Dominant Superpower: John Pomfret Expresses His Doubts

Brzezinski's Skepticism Regarding the Efficacy of More Troops to Solve the Problem in Afghanistan

Pope Benedict Warns Of The *Spiritual Desert* Spreading Throughout The World

Obama as Seen by the Conservatives at the U of Chicago Law School: Piece by Jason Zengerle in the New Republic

SEEING THINGS WHOLE: Priming and Our Extreme Susceptibility to Influence

The Wind Up, and Here's the Pitch

McCain Runs on Bush's Dismal Record, Counting on the Media not to Notice the Emperor Has No Clothes: Dean Baker

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"