The following is a guest post by Tobin Fraley. I would like to thank this blog’s host, Jerry, for allowing me to usurp his daily offering by giving me an opportunity to discuss a song I feel is of particular consequence in today’s atmosphere of hatred, blame, and violence, violence both real and threatened….
It is Martin Luther King Jr. day. I regret that when King was active in the Civil Rights movement in the 1960’s I was indifferent to the events, to the suffering of Blacks across this land. I did not go out of my way to hurt Black individuals, even felt “positive” about several who…
The Night of Broken Glass. Anyone who reads or hears that word ought to shudder, tremble with dread. I offer this statement of yesterday by former Governor of California, Republican, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Nothing need be added by way of comment to these words. If you page down to the commentary affixed to the Youtube…
Still reeling from the events of Wednesday. An armed mob, incited by the President of the United States, stormed the Capitol, roamed the halls of Congress, looting and posing for selfies with police officers. This was the attempted murder of our democracy. Not simply a lunatic fringe, a few extremists getting out of hand,…
I am numb after viewing the rampage of thousands of Trumpers around and inside of the Capitol building yesterday. A mob of thousands gathered from throughout the country, listened to their revered leader Trump instruct them to storm the Capitol. They proceeded accordingly. It is beyond belief this was a spur of the moment…
A day dawns. Is it a new day, or is it groundhog day, a hellish repetition of the last four years? This is reference to the election of course. Could this be a version of Nietzsche’s doctrine of eternal return? That understanding of history posits that we are fated to repeat every detail of…
When I was in my 40’s I learned that my great Uncle Thomas McLamb was a soldier in the Army of Northern Virginia lead by Robert E. Lee. The War of Northern Aggression did not go well for Thomas. He was greviously wounded by a spent minié ball at Kelly’s Ford, Virginia. Uncle…
“The virus is circulating at a speed that not even the most pessimistic forecasts had anticipated,” Macron said in a televised address. “Like all our neighbours, we are submerged by the sudden acceleration of the virus.” “We are all in the same position: overrun by a second wave which we know will be harder,…
The language game of legitimationis not state-politicalbut philosophical. There is a universal “history” of spirit,spirit is “life,” and “life” is its own self-presentationand formulation in the ordered knowledgeof all of its formscontained in the empirical sciences.German idealism is the narration of the his(story) of this life-subject. In this perspective,knowledge first finds legitimacywithin itself,and it…
How do I write this morning? I did not listen to the debate last night. I cannot expose myself to a litany of lies, which is nothing other than emotional abuse. Mentally and emotionally I have suffered enough from the verbal battering that accompanies the President of the United States. Nevertheless I found sleep…
