Tension doesn’t make us fall apart. Rather, it keeps us together
Why Right-Wing Talk Radio Is So Effective
Good talk show hosts know their job isn’t to find or interview “good guests”; it’s to build a trust relationship with their audience, cemented over years, caller after caller, day after day. Truly effective hosts like Limbaugh and Michael Savage talk to their listeners as if they’re close and trusted friends. This is a dynamic unavailable to podcasting or television, as it is impossible to replicate without live listener interaction. – The Nation
Dorothy Gill Barnes, Sculptor In Wood And Tree Bark, Dead Of COVID At 93
“From strips of mulberry tree bark, she produced an intricate vase. To make a stout bowl, she folded hunks of poplar bark. She once wove a basket on a loom with lichen. She also created sculptures from wood, like a hollowed-out oak tree she encased with apple suckers and a work featuring branches of cherry and paulownia linked together like a necklace with glass and wire.” – The New York Times
World leaders deserve to know about Australia’s abysmal climate change policy, so I wrote to them
Australia’s leaders are playing with climate policy, pitching a nationalist and populist message to their base. Continue reading
Fever Pitch: Who’s an Enemy of the State?
“The character of our own government at present is imbecility” said Samuel Johnson to James Boswell. Continue reading
Israel’s Nuclear Secrets That Peres Shared With Kissinger in 1965 (Dec 14, 2020)
There is something fascinating about decades-old, secret government documents. Sometimes the big secrets become unimportant, almost trivial, over time, because the lifespan of state secrets is usually short and time sensitive. But that’s not the case when the government decides that certain subjects have an unlimited lifespan. This is true of the dark history of Israel’s nuclear program.