Zen And The Art of “Ghost World.”
Saving Terri Schiavo
My interpretation of the indie film “Ghost World” in the light of an ancient Chinese koan.
Author: Larry Joseph Calloway
I am a writer. I love the Rocky Mountain West. For more than 50 years my primary residence has been in the upper basin of the Rio Grande.
New West Powder Snow: Start Yer Engines, Get Yer Gun
But who ya gonna Call? The sheriff or the NRA?
In one NRA ad, a defiant Charlton Heston carried a double barrel shotgun, unloaded, open at the breach and breaking nicely over his right shoulder. On the other hand, there’s reality on Molas Pass.
Old And Crazy And Mumbling And Brilliant
Hunter S. Thompson, Ernest Hemingway
Thoughts on the timely death of Hunter S. Thompson. With reference to Hemingway and some Christian Republican political figures.
On The Death Of A Scientist, And An Era
Ernst Mayr was 100 years old and working on another book
Ernst Mayr said it: Evolution is as much of a fact as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.
Take Off With Lakoff: A Linguist’s Aerial Tour Of American Politics
It took 12 years, but the “family values” Christians won.
George Lakoff, the Berkeley professor who has become a liberal political guru, was recognized early by The Santa Fe Institute, known for its work in chaos theory. It figures.
Española Rides Low And Slow Toward Santa Fe
Christopher Columbus probably wouldn’t approve
With every trip to the San Luis Valley and back to Santa Fe, I grew fonder of the place. Christopher Columbus liked it too, if my translation is right.
Revised View of The Texas Rangers: Secret Police
It’s not exactly Bush World
A new book on the Texas Rangers during the bloody decade of the Mexican Revolution recollected my strange first encounter with Reies Lopez Tijerina.
Remedy Revealed For PSAD (Political Season Affective Disorder)
You don’t have to leave the country (although they do have a good medical plan in Canada)
My post-election blues song: Prayer and hugging, sex and evangelizing, freedom for slaves in the Christian Confederacy.
The Hooded Figure Factor: Surviving Born-again Government
Plus, a few unpolled factors giving New Mexico to Kerry
Maybe I’ve been subjected to too many Karl Rove subliminal Jesus suggestions. Maybe I’ve spent too much time at Christ in the Desert. But I saw a religious context in the video of Eminem’s “Mosh”, on the internet near U.
He Voted Against Canadian Drugs Before He Voted For Them
Cheap shots in the presidential campaign
I got a flu shot for the most indefensible or reasons, as Bill Clinton would say, because I could. Then I felt a cold paranoia starting in my arm: Was this a third-worlds trick?