Speaking of Liberation
Why can't we hold paradigms at a distance? Why does every explanatory belief system turn into a religion, a fundamentalism? "Fundament" is related to the notion of a base--that on which we stand, our...
View ArticleTemporary Blog Shutdown April 9-16
As some of you may know, I shall be in NY during that week, participating in the 6th Annual NY Wafer Summit Meeting (6ANYWSM), as well as getting together with old friends. Plus, the mayor will be...
View ArticleCharge of the Wafer Brigade
With apologies to Lord Tennyson: "Morons to the right of them/Morons to the left of them/Morons in front of them/Volleyed and thundered/Stormed at with shot and shell/Boldly they rode and well/Into the...
View ArticleReality Avoidance
It’s quite amazing how the news is endlessly about race, or gender, or an election that is 1.5 yrs away. Filler, is what I call it. Very little of this has anything to do with reality, which the...
View Article4 Million
Ahoy there, Waferinos! This blog was launched in April of 2006. 13 years and one month later, it still survives, pulling in about 45,000 hits a month. The total hits for the 13 years is now nearing 4...
View ArticleThe Brothers
"Americans who seek to understand the roots of their country's trouble in the world should look not at [the Dulles brothers'] portraits but in a mirror." --Stephen Kinzer The Brothers, a study of John...
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Well, Waferinos, life in America gets more dysfunctional every day. Massacres, warmongering, widespread desperation and drugs of all kinds (hustling especially), and increasing techno-buffoonery: Could...
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Wafers- Good discussion, let's keep it going. Meanwhile, check out The World Revolution of Westernization, by Theodore von Laue. It's a bit dated--1987--so nothing on fall of USSR, 9/11, or 2008--but a...
View ArticleOcean's Eight
The Sopranos was a kind of breakthrough in American film (or TV), in that the Mafia crime family comes off as more glamorous than sordid (kind of a cool, alternative way of life). Of course, they all...
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Wafers- Well, the Democratic debate was a joke; the 4th of July was a joke; and there is little in America these days that isn't a joke. Am I imagining things, or does Joe Biden's face look like the...
View ArticleHatred and Dissolution
Wafers- We have reached a new stage in the evolution of this blog. The senders of hate mail have escalated their hysteria: they are now making death threats. It's not clear to me how serious these are,...
View Article365
Well, Waferinos- Here we are, with things getting progressively worse. Regarding Iran, I have written the Pentagon urging them to also nuke Toronto and Paris, but those yokels pay me no heed....
View ArticleThe Happy Book (at last)
Well, Waferinos, it's been a long haul, but at last The Happy Book is finally available. I call it that because it made me happy to write it, and I'm hoping it will make you happy to read it. One thing...
View ArticleThe Fix Is In
Waferinos- Dark days, with all these shootings. No surprise to declinists, really. I mean, we're in the end game now, and the historical record is that the end game is ugly. I've said this many times...
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Wafers- Well, we've been having a pretty rich discussion as of late. I am always impressed with the quality of this blog. I think of other blogs, none of which can attain to this high level, and I feel...
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Well, onward and downward. Nothing could be clearer. A couple of replies to previous comments: Sam: Statistically speaking, it's purely American. trying: for starters, check out last essay in AWTY. As...
View Article370
We are imploding on a daily basis. It actually has more to do with what America is, than with Trumpaloney. Altho I love Trumpaloney, and want him to keep doing what he's doing. Other than that, let's...
View ArticleShane
One of the most iconic American films is Shane, starring Alan Ladd, which came out in 1953. I remember seeing it around that time, or maybe shortly after, although I cannot now recall what I thought of...
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Kavanaugh, Netanyahu, Bolti...the dreck mounts like a tidal wave. Wafers, the truly great among us, are called upon to monitor the mass suicide. In this thread, we shall see that they are up to the...
View ArticleInterview with Pacifica Radio, KPFT, Houston
Wafers- Here's the link. When you get to it, click on Sept. 19 under the list of Past Shows: https://kpft.org/programming/newstalk/living-art/ Enjoy! -mb
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