Between the images and stories thay grace the cover of People magazine or the content and storylines that fill the screens at movie theatres or television sets in the average American home, it’s easy to feel a subtle but deep sense of shame disrespect towards or even disgust about America. We feel it when politicians…
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The Danger of Third Party Poltics in Modern Day America
Trotsky recently sent in this link to an article from TruthDig, a righteous lefty news feed webzine. It’s disturbing to say the least. Professionally “leaked” White House documents that show what a hardliner United States President Barack Obama is on “terrorists” so the hard right cannot accuse him of being a “softy”. Ironic since that’s…
The Renaissance of American Television
Tonight aired a special 2 hour season finale of the new hit television series TOUCH starring Kiefer Sutherland. What makes TOUCH special is not just that it hosts smart intelligent writing, or that it’s focus is on helping people to make the world a better place — definite rarities in the history of American…
The Renaissance of American Television
A private little world for me… a private little world for you. The online musings and journals of singer/songwriter recording artist author and activist Ed Hale. The Transcendence Diaries have been posting regularly online since 2001. Comments are always welcomed. And so are YOU.
Why Memorial Day is Not a Holiday
Today is Memorial Day. I know this because the local and national news is all abuzz this weekend about it. It’s turned into one of the most popular holidays of the year for most Americans. Photographs and video footage of sun bathers and suburban family barbeques abound and for days we’ve been bombarded by…
The Importance of Being Nice
Watching the film ANOTHER YEAR by Mike Leigh. Such a simple film. And through this simplicity so deep, moving and impactful. I dare say I don’t think I’ll forget these characters. At least not anytime soon. About midway through the movie, the simplest thought occurred to me. How important it is to be a…
Who Can You Trust?
A member of a Facebook Page I started for Independent Voters asked us to Share an article he wrote. At first read, it seemed obvious that it would make no sense to post it because it has a hard-right, conservative agenda and therefore would not be relevant to a Page dedicated to Independent-minded American…
Germany Joins the Personal Expression Revolution
Last night Princess Little Tree and I were speaking about the incredible shifts we have seen in global democratization over the last two years. Specifically in the context of the book I have been working on along with a few others for the last five years entitled We Are The Revolution – Welcome to…
Good Company
“My idea of good company is the company of clever, well informed people who have a great deal of conversation.” — Jane Austen