Reports and Opinions By Larry Joseph Calloway
My report on the political crisis in the tiny Carribean nation that happens to be located in Central America. Nobody could phone out the story as it happened because the phones were all sabotaged.
When John Paul II died, the media actors praised him as a a great actor. But he also was a writer, and the written word is revealing. Consider his “Fides et Ratio.”
My interpretation of the indie film “Ghost World” in the light of an ancient Chinese koan.
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.
Thoughts on the timely death of Hunter S. Thompson. With reference to Hemingway and some Christian Republican political figures.
Ernst Mayr said it: Evolution is as much of a fact as the observation that the earth goes around the sun.
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.
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.
A new book on the Texas Rangers during the bloody decade of the Mexican Revolution recollected my strange first encounter with Reies Lopez Tijerina.
My post-election blues song: Prayer and hugging, sex and evangelizing, freedom for slaves in the Christian Confederacy.