Author: blueneck

Men fear thought more than they fear anything else on earth — more than ruin, more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established...

The National Conference for Media Reform got off to a great start this morning. [Friday January 12] The first speaker, master of ceremonies for the opening event, was John Nichols, Editor of The Nation magazine.  He...

If at first an idea is not absurd, there is no hope for it. – Albert Einstein

I was born and I live in Jackson, Mississippi, near what is known by convention as 90 degrees west longitude, 32 degrees north latitude.  (You can look up your own location on this arbitrary scale here.) As a result of this...

First of all, please indulge me while I share something of my own beliefs.  In no particular order, I am or have been, an agnostic, a dunked-in-the-water Southern Baptist (the 1963 Baptist Faith and Message kind, excluding...