Good Morning, Everybody! What's going on in your minds ?
My question for today:
How is the Internet transforming human functioning, personhood, and identity through the engagement with electronic media?
Just asking a little question, no worries. 
This evening's music features blues and funk guitarist Johnny "Guitar" Watson.
Public Service Announcement: Only one week left to file your income tax return.
This evening's music features blues guitarist, member of the Mississippi Sheiks and co-writer of "Sittin' On Top of the World, Walter Vinson.
The Man Who Lost
Remembering GrandmaWhether forking a pie crust together or hoeing in the corn fields, she moved deliberately, her pace matching nature's. A quiet, pensive expression softly suggested that she was forever in thought; a beautiful woman, mature, old to me, even in my first memories of her.
This evening's music features Chicago bluesman Baby Face Leroy Foster.
Lent is over and Sweetie can have chocolate again. I am going to continue giving up restraint.
The weather has turned nice. Here on the Piedmont, the leaves are popping.
After a hectic weekend, with visitors, I feel like relaxing. The spring breeze is carrying the sound of a beer calling.
I wrote this up in late July last year after a veteran and his wife stopped by our Peace vigil. I mentioned it in a post this weekend and it seem to garner some interest to read more. I did make one mistake this weekend when I said the man had three tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. I had that backwards as you will read in the narrative below. I had previously posted this to a Google group we had for organizing this site, so it may seem familiar to some of you.
It's hard to get too excited about national electoral politics right now. At the moment it doesn't seem like much of an avenue for the sort of radical change that is needed to make the political system work for the 99% again. The game is rigged, the 1% control the parties and through the parties and a compliant corporate media, the choices available to the 99%.
Could the 99% take back the political system, purge the money power from it and flush out the politicians that form the "coalition of the bribed?"
