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ACTIVISM

Convert and organize whites; don't just condemn them
When the bad congeals & the good scatters
Finding a sound and a symbol
Despair & survival
Hat trick of survival

AGE

No retirement age for rebellion

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What the hell do we do now?
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Time for a movement
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What time is it?
Beyond Dysfunction Junction
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America 2.0
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Movement time
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Another member of the gradocracy
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America's cultural bear market
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The ego has landed. . . and with no regrets
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The crash of America
Derivative America
Global dumbing: the politics of entropy
The gradocracy
From watch dogs to pet dogs
Top rot
Elite emigration
Dismantling the Democratic Party
Things Irish-American Protestants should know about Ireland
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ANTHROPOLOGY

Practicing anthropology without a license

ARTS

How to keep people going to museums


BP SPILL

The BP economy
The metaphor spill

BRITAIN

Adventures in Britain
The movie 'Queen'
Trip to the old side

BUSH

The Bush codicil

BUSINESS

Eternal fundamentals of leadership (Rev. 8/14/11)
The corporate curse
Sears: Nothing but usefulness

CAMPAIGN FINANCING

We all live in a Mafia neighborhood now
Using bribes to cancel democracy
On campaign financing

CARS

The Dead Hubcap Society

CASTRO

So Fidel Castro walks into this bar and this guy says. .

CENTER

The moderate myth
The center: America's biggest political threat
Moderate extremism
America's extremist center
America's most dangerous extremists: the muddled middle

CHANGE

Why "The Help" helps
Running out of change

CITIES


A new bottom of the ninth
Saving the city from itself
Cities and the environment
No dreams on H Street
San Francisco
Not all that smart growth movement
Why banning human nature doesn't work
Memo to a new mayor
Making cities black and poor: the hidden story

CIVIL LIBERTIES

Legalize marijuana, delegalize our culture
How to stay free
Of pink suits, golf balls & civil liberties

CIVIL RIGHTS

Martin Luther King Day, Bull Connor years
The other side of Memphis: Mississippi in 1965

CLINTONS

What you won't find in the Clinton library
The Clinton legacy
When the Hill spills
Hillary Clinton by the numbers
The Clinton trap
Hyping for Hil
Why Clinton's lying is still important?
Clinton and the media
Bill Clinton: our first post-modern president
In search of the Clintons' right-wing conspiracy
The Clinton myth
Arkansas connections
Unanswered questions from the Vince Foster case
Drugs and Arkansas

COMMUNIST

Who cares who was a Communist?

CONSPIRACIES

A thinker's guide to conspiracy theories

CONSTITUTION

You ain't nothing but a market in the making
Cutting the Constitution as well as the budget

CORPORATIONS

The corporate curse
The myth of corporastions in America
Corporations and America: the back story

CORRUPTION

If you want to be corrupt, do it right
How corruption has changed

CRIME

Alex Jones & Chris Matthews control
The blood on our floor

CULTURE

Eternal fundamentals of leadership (Rev. 8/14/11)
True false testing
On loving trains
Factories of fame
Sex, war and the Ivy League
Why hip is not longer hip
America 2.0...
The autistic confederacy
Losing time, losing space
The pariah economy and the rise of social bigotry
Where is the counterculture when we need it?

Why culture can't be copyrighted
The crash of America

CYBER NOTES
Factories of fame
Twenty years in cyberspace

DEMOCRATS

The Democrats' inland America problem
Dismantling the Democrats
Two eras of Democrats

DEVOLUTION

The virtue of decentralizing government

ECONOMICS

How's your GDP today?
Born again economics
What gay marriage can teach us about economic recovery
Some ways to occupy the future. . .and our economy
War and debt
Free markets, enslaved minds
What a real stimulus might look like
Milton Friedman: Killing America softly with his s...
A short history of the economic American
What a real stimulus might look like
Post partisan depression
Myth of American capitalism
S&L crisis: when no fault capitalism meets lemon socialism
When will media ditch right wing economics
Bottom line: the true costs of extreme capitalism
The pariah economy and the rise of social bigotry
Corporations and America: the back story

ECOLOGY

In the beginnin Monsanto patented the earth
A poker player's guide to environmental risk assessment

What baseball, poker and the stock market can teach us about climate change
Stone dust

EDUCATION

The road to literacy is paved with words, not tests
What a Comcast technician taught me about Common Core
The missing predicate in my life
Kids and food
Bush, Obama & Dr. George
Graduation speech
Memoir of a home & school association president
The two best kept secrets about school integration
Where bad education really comes from
Standardized test for your school
Back to school: tales of a parents association president
Let 'em play


ELITE

When the top caves in
Preppies at the gate

ENTROPY


Global dumbing: the politics of entropy

ETC
Places I own for a while
On travel
My cellphone deficit disorder
Coming of age with On the Road
The Review and blogging
On loving trains
Bearing Drift
What's new with me
Pocket paradigms
A surfeit of prigs
The fading of respect
Confessions of a vision impaired stakeholder
Rampant self promotion
End of an affair: my last Chrysler
Of porcupines & sex
Practicing anthropology without a license
On the care and feeding of theories
Running things
A brief encounter with normalcy
The hazards of estivation
The hazards of cleaning the attic
Losing time, losing space
The care and feeding of theories
The gadfly thing
How much do we learn from evil?
Football and the rise of the American empire
The Dead Hubcap Society

ETHNICITY

Barack Obama: The first what?
The two best kept secrets about school integration
The melanin obsession

FASCISM

Fascism, capitalism & corporatism
Clues your country may be turning into a fascist state.

FOREIGN

The new world disorder

FREEDOM

What gun owners & gays can teach us about America
Drifting towards dictatorship

GAY


Senatorial inquiry

GOVERNMENT

What's Cheney?
Why banning human nature doesn't work
The real cause of inflation

GREEN PARTY

It's not easy being Green
Greening America
History's hints for third parties

GUNS

Post Navy Yard killing thoughts
Lower the heat on heat
Talking guns

HEALTH

Obamacare: the good, the bad, the unpredictable & the dangerously unknown
Healthcare ruling: the party's over
The Obamacare bomb
Healthcare mess
The sleeper in Obamacare

HISTORY

Why I remember World War One
My JFK moments
Who really won the Civil War?
Pilgrim's folly
Bobby, June 7
The first major black theater group
Preserving culture as well as we do buildings

HUMANITIES

What's a humanities?
Five years of failure
A philistine at the gates

IMMIGRATION

The mythology of immigration
Population, immigration and progressives
Immigration: What are we really worried about

INTEGRITY

Integrity doesn't need a law

INTERNET

15 years on the Web

IRAQ

The revision thing

JAZZ

Jamming with James
Playback
Jazz: cooler and cheaper than war

JUSTICE

Jury duty
Where bad cops come from
Surprises in the courthouse
What judges and lawyers won't tell you about juries

LABOR

Why labor unions matter

LIBERALS

What real liberals were like
How liberals helped create a bipolar America
Death of liberalism and what to do about it
Liberals standing in the way of change
Liberals in denial
How I got fired from liberalism
The liberal war on free speech
Passive aggressive liberalism
How to tell if you're still a liberal
My years with liberals
Life among the liberal fundamentalists
My years with ADA
The rise of a liberal aristocracy and the fall of ...

LIBERTARIANS

Is this what libertarianism leads to?

MAINE

God is my hacker
Paul Lepage & the complexities of anger
Potuck with neighbors

MEDIA
The medi'a obsession with bad news
Self plagiarism
Switching channels
How television wrecked our politics
The Senate’s war on freedom of the press
Holiday news"
The media's anti-left bias
The canonization of Katherine Graham
Jocko Henderson
How television turned off politics
On journalism
It's the lack of a fairness doctrine, not Limbaugh, that's the real problem
The noise channels at play
Words & news
Labor Day admission
Banned
Where's the news gone?
The Associated Press and associated problems
Glenn Beck is nobody; don't even ignore him
Henrik Ibsen made me do it
If NPR is so objective why does it keep calling political causes 'reforms?'
Ritual of the words
Filler items for young journalists
More to progress than polite words
Fifty years of journalism
Why journalism isn't a profession
Adventures in British journalism
Smackdown with Bill O'Reilly
Harder to read than Ulysses
C-SPAN didn't like this speech
USA Tomorrow
What good old days?
Talk radio the way it ought to be
Flogging the blogs
The conpiracy theory card
How newspapers can save themselves

MID EAST


Syria misadventure blows Obama's cover
Slow and curious
Time to stop being afraid of Israel
Israel: A pocket paradigm
The other message of Helen Thomas
How to keep the Mid East straight
How the media and the politicians make the Mid East worse
A short history of the Long War
The real Holocaust denial
Preserving a Jewish state or the Jewish soul?
How to tell if you've won
Writing about food
A history of the Iraq war told entirely in lies
What I learned as a part Jew

MIX

Why "The Help" helps
The politics of ethnicity, gender & zip code
Black Ivies in trouble
I don't seem to count for much

MONEY

What DC cab drivers know about free markets
Bad advice and the crash

MUSEUMS

The hazards of cleaning the attic
Muzim musin'. . .How to keep people coming to museums

MUSIC

Some essays on music
Why we need a natural music movement
I can't hear the music. . . There's a lawyer in my ear
Reaction without action
Punk & protest
The sound of changes
Why you don't have to care about Michael Jackson
Playback
Music's real problem is downgrading, not downloading

MYSTERIES

The care and feeding of unsolved mysteries
TWA 800 revisited

MYTHS

Dealing with myths
How we lost the Whitw House to show business
Myths & the audacity of reality

NAUTICAL

Loran lullaby
The circle is closed

OBAMA


Syria misadventure blows Obana's cover
The globalization of Obama's narcissism
Why Obama is screwing up
O, say can you see? (Or just hear?)
Things to do now: Face reality
Obama's non-political problems
Otohbotoh Obama
The Obamacon
Thinking about Obama
The O bomb: why Obama is doing so poorly
What if Obama is wrong?
Why people call Obama a socialist and why it matters
Friends in high places: Obama & the American oligarchy
Inauguration eve
The timidity of hope
When the pond is purified
Why we call Obama black
Why Obama attracts the right
Obama's 2004 speech revisited
The politics of nothingness
Myth and the audacity of reality
Thinking about Obama
Inauguration eve
Bait & switch
Obama's ego
The black Ivies
Telling facts about Obama
Obama reality check
Black like who
Obama-Clinton-Alinsky myth
Obama-Clinton-Alinsky myth contd
Bush lost but we haven't won

PATRIOTISM

Whose land is it anyway?
The patriotism game
Freeing July 4th


PEACE

The role of respect in peace
Big disaster and a little dissin'

PEOPLE

Marion Barry
Dr. George Baxter
Fidel Castro and me
Ernest Hemingway
Christopher Hitchens
Don Imus
Don Imus: welcome back
Kennedys: the real Kennedys
Robert Kennedy
Charlie McDowell
Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man
Ralph Nader: Unreasonable choice
John Neary
Gaylord Nelson
Stewart Mott
Howard Dean
Eugene McCarthy: Notes on a napkin
Eugene McCarthy: Resurrection in a pew
John Wiebenson
Ernest Percell White Jr.

PLACES

San Francisco

POCKET PARADIGMS

Pocket paradigms

POLITICS

Why I'mnot running for president
Politics at the top: Reaction rather than action
What we can learn from Maine about 2020
The non-political side of politics
Enjoy Obama while you can
No one left but us
Why being first may not be much
My man Al
America becoming a corporate colony
What NSA can teach us about dealing with the right wing
Top rot

Elite emigration
The sequestration of decency, common sense and the Constitution
The end of politics
Helicopter politics
Bipolar politics
Lying our land away
A sinner's view of born again politics
Fighting the dystablishment
Why people vote against themselves
The right to be jerks
Super Junta, we hardly knew ye. . .thank God
The virtues of government decentralization
Can you trick instant runoff voting?
Reacting to riots
The normalcy bubble
The end of politics
Mob politics & political movements
Ghosts on the platform
Memo to a new mayor
The pragmatism of morality
A cooperative commonwealth
The dysfunction beat
Handling bullies
Why are the Republicans acting so crazy?
All politicians left behind in math
How to bribe a politician without anyone knowing it
Bipartisan law breaking
On election polls
Things to do in a lousy time
When bad guys do good
Argument without honor
Memo from a former White House adviser
The vanished politician
Lessons from LBJ
What to do now
Greening America
The crash of the American imagination
Empathy entropy
McCain's a mugwump not a maverick
Letter to Joe the Plumber
Just words
There is so a religious test for election and here it is
Bipartisanship is bad for your health
Bringing politics home
On gadflies
Almost running
Cross-over politics & the ideology of scale
Retrieving the Democrats' reason for being
Brain drain: the hazards of grad school politics
Pathological politics
Our next Civil War battle
How television turned off politics
Why I plan to vote for Obama anyway
How Obama could still win the debate
How to defeat Romney despite the Obama campaign
Personal to white guys thinking of voting for Romney
The story so far: August
The pathological deceit of Mitt Romney
Romney: From lying for the Lord to lying for the presidency
An Obama one night stand
Why Obama isn't doing better against Romney
The next six months at Dysfunction Junction
How to tell the four leading GOP bigots apart
A culture on its way out?
What I learned from four hours of GOP debate
How to tell a radical Muslim from a radical Republican
OccupyDemocrats
How to outflank the Tea Party (and Barack Obama)
The GOP's uncivil war
Words of evil
The strange semiotics of 2008
Enough of Lincoln, already
The Democrats' disaster

Fracture and fusion
Pathology & politics
Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and Vanna White
On finding a candidate
2008 and the media myth machine
The real divide on Hillary Clinton
Retrieving the Democrats' reason for existence
Clinton & Obama: logos without logos
Missing in action: the American Left
Enough of Lincoln, already
Oh Bummer
Bringing politics home
Politics of ethnicity, gender and zipcode
Politics of nothingness
Presidents and parking tickets

POPULISM

The real history of populism
What a populist rebellion might look like

PREJUDICE

Getting along with each other is not a war or a law
The flip side of prejudice
Why Don Imus shouldn't be fired

PRESIDENTS

The cowboys and the Ivies

PROCESS PSYCHOPATHY

Data demons infiltrate the Coast Guard

PROGRESSIVES

How progressives and liberals are different
Indentured liberals and independent progressives

REBELLION
On rebellion

RELIGION & ITS ALTERNATIVES

At last a cool Pope
The censorship of religion's real role in politics
Where the hell did all the good Christians go?
Growing up part Jewish
Seventh Day Agnostics arise
What happened to all the cool preachers?
False faith and lousy works
Keeping the faith
A conversation with God
There is so a religious test for election and here it is
Who does God talk to?
Separating church and reality
Who owns faith & values?
What I learned as a part Jew
The fight that doesn't matter
A religious test for high office
The real American theology
What the Christian right forgets about the Bible

RESPECT

The fading of respect

SCIENCE

When science, politics, religion & journalism meet

SECURITY

Who needs walls
A dummy's guide to security
Iatrogenic security
One never knows do one
How you became the enemy

SENATE

Let's amend the Senate
Sissies in the Senate

SPIES

FEMA mind wars
Letter to a spook

TECHNOCRACY

In technocracy we trust

YOUTH

Of ghost dances and the young
An apology to younger Americans
School 'reform' is about class, not classrooms
What's behind the assault on public education?
Personal to the Los Angeles Teachers Union
Graduation speech
Back to school
Premature aging

WAR

Toy wars
Iatrogenic security threats
The good thing about war
Weapons of crass destruction
War and debt
The war that still kills
War as office politics
The abolition of war
Why is the military sacred?
Iatrogenic security threats
How to tell if you've won
A speech CSPAN didn't like
Why we lost the war on terror
The little green men
All war all the time
Mission creep: the militarization of America

WASHINGTON, DC

Washington royals vs. the White House dictator
How Donald Trump got his new DC hotel
Last call: leaving DC
Eats
The importance of timing in Washington
Wikileaks: Exposing culture as well as secrets
Washington dinner talk
On the west side of the Capitol
Washington in the 90s
Why Washington doesn't work
Has Washington gone mad?
Lunch with Gene McCarthy
Conversation
Washington: Where smart people go to do stupid things
How Washington thinks and why it doesn't work
No dreams on H Street
Elian comes to the 'hood
Potomac playground
Snow in Washington
The 1968 riots
The history of black Washington
Brief encounter with the normal
The club: how Washington really works
Eighth Street
The day the buses ran empty
Passings: Sweet Daddy Madison

WORDS & WRITING

Notes on thuggery
Learning from Orwell & Mussolini
Putting the G back in Obama
Why bad words aren't the problem
Food critic hazards
45 years behind the masthead
Words and news
At a loss for words
SomeRulesForWriting LLC (SRFW)!
Post literate America
Culture can't be copyrighted
Words of evil
Words & meaning
Ritual of words
Some thoughts on writing
Words and cruelty
Words and meaning

Multitudes: The Unauthorized Memoirs of Sam Smith

Georgetown
Ghosts
Becoming
Friends: a Quaker education
Summer
Harvard U: Magna Cum Probation
The Canaries in Studio A
Suspect
Hooligan days
How the trouble began
Seeds
Fire
Place
DC Diary: the 1970s
Almost running
DC Diary: the 1980s
DC Diary: the 1990s
DC Diary: the new century
Going Green
The loneliest mile in town
Rebel




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