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The Big Lie and America.
Its been a while since I blogged. I have been thinking about what we have learned about America since the elections and the results have made me depressed. I remember once when I was in College at Iowa...
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Is Everything For Sale? Standing with Liu Xiao Bo
Carl von Ossietzky won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1936. He was also not allowed to recieve it in person. von Ossietzky was not allowed to recieve the prize by a new and dynamic political system that also...
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The Future of Poetry without Serendipity
One of the first thinkers to use the Codex which is the immediate ancestor of the book was the Christian philosopher Origen. He translated the Old Testament and put it in columns so that your could...
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The Incarnation and Bookstores
Normally on Christmas Eve I post the first lines from the Gospel of John about the word becoming flesh and dwelling amongst us. The fact is that the one thing about Christianity- the Roman Catholic...
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Black Swans and Poetic Mirrors
As a poet who also works in the business world I have had a unique perspective on what has happened to America and the world over the past three years. I have often wondered what it would be like to...
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Sounding Like Bill O'Reilly
Downloaded a Poetry Reading by Charles Bernstein. Does anyone else notice that Charles sounds like Bill O'Reilly when he reads? Also downloaded a poetry talk with Al Filres and other Kelly Writer's...
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1929 a Hinge in History
My sister's friend is in the process of putting together photos from Vestone, (BS) Italy. What separates this group of photos from so much of the geneology bric a brac that now fills so many websites...
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2011 Irascible Baseball Preview
Recently on the ESPN Baseball Today Podcast Eric Karabell and Company told an English potential fan to root for the White Sox. We of course welcome this fan and I have offered to take this new White...
View ArticlePaul Ryan: The End of America as We Knew it.
http://www.salon.com/news/budget_showdown/index.html?story=/tech/htww/2011/04/06/paul_ryans_plan_to_dismantle_the_great_societyCongressman Paul Ryan, who is the same age as I am, announced a budget...
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John Paul II Great Man- Not a Saint
In 1999 it was the mania to try to pick a Man of the Century. Time Magazine picked Einstein but I have always thought that the true man of the 20th Century was Karol Woytija, Pope John Paul II. He was...
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America Causing its Own Decline
The Economy is Stagnant. The May Jobs Report is a disaster. A whole generation is seeing future wash away. If you wanted to know what it felt like in the 1930's you now are getting to feel it. The...
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The Valley of My Ancestors
To Most Americans, even those of Italian descent, a visit to Italy is a combination of tourism, gelato, and Roman ruins. But for me Italy is always a visit to the valley of my ancestors. As a poet and...
View ArticleAnother President from Texas?
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303635604576391671267240408.htmlI just watched a blistering speech by Governor Rick Perry of Texas. A combination of Jefferson Davis and Davy Crockett this...
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July 4th 2011
When I was child we would go to Italy for vacation to see family and sometimes on July 4th we would go to Pinzolo, the town of my Grandfather for the fourth of July. Pinzolo was known for two things...
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My Ancestors the Crusader
As a poet I have always wondered if I could write prose? I can do essays and blog posts but to write a novel was in fact something that always scared me. So I began to work on a novel a few years ago...
View ArticleThe End of Borders Books
When Borders books entered the Chicago Market in 1986 I was a sophomore in college. Chicago had some good local bookstores of which Barbara's and Seminary Coop have survived and a couple of locals like...
View ArticleDiocletian and Constantine
I am now convinced that we are witnessing the fall of the American empire. Ronald Reagan was our Diocletian and Barack Obama is our Constantine.
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Elitism is the Problem in Art and Business
Elitism is the problem? Whether it is poetry or business I find that elitism is what stifles us as a society. The doors to opportunity are blocked by an elite that make sure their power is not...
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The Problem with President Obama
I write this blog post as a continued supporter of the President. The problem with the president is that he really does not understand that what has been called for during the past three years has been...
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After 9/11 America is a Different Place
On September 11th 2001 I was making a presentation to the Economic Club of Milan, Italy when a member of our office's admin staff entered and said in Italian "they blew up New York". My wife was at...
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