I checked out Ron Suskind’s The Price Of Loyalty from the library on my Mom’s library card, and reserved copies of The Politics of Truth by Joseph Wilson and Against All Enemies by Richard Clarke. I am looking forward to getting into Suskind’s book about Paul O’Neill, former US Treasury Secretary under George W. Bush, and long-time economist (serving as Continue Reading
Just got the hardback in an Amazon shipment along with Trippi’s book (already read it, but it’s a keeper so I bought it also) and House of Bush, House of Saud (fascinatingly terrifying). In starting Gillmor’s We The Media, I was thinking about what I wrote earlier about being almost “numbed” by the negative scenarios that I can envision in Continue Reading
My previous post bemoans how the Religous Right so narrowly defines the “morality” they espouse. Their two BIG issues , abortion and homsexaulity, I identify as practically the only componetns to this “morality” platform. As I have pointed out before, I don’t have a problem with opposing abortion. It is , for me, like war, only to be used in Continue Reading
I started it a few nights ago, as I waited for Janet to finish some other task, before we started watching “Outfoxed” and now I have picked it up again to read before I go to sleep: Moyers On America As usual, Moyers speaks/writes with eloquent and stirring imagery, and love for democracy, for which is he is understandably concerned Continue Reading
I read the first 50 pages last night of
At least for another 3 and a half months, till the first and largely important step of removing from the whitehouse the best friend that the rich elite and the corporations and the oil comapnies ever had there (heck, he IS one of the oil coppanies, and supported in a BIG , HUGE MOnster way by Kenneth Lay). I finished Continue Reading
Did some more reading last night and today, and I’m halfway through, and still reccommending Joe Trippi’s book The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised. I found myself feeling the pain all over again of having Dean’s campaign get buried, and it’s really because people “don’t get it” about politics, and about the power of the Internet medium to carry community Continue Reading
I picked up “The Revolution Will NOT Be Televised” last night, and haven’t been able to put it down (except to laugh at several and various places aloong those first 40 pages I’ve read so far…the guy is funny too). I can sasy with complete confidence that the book is a gem after getting only 20% of the way through Continue Reading
The previous entry announcing my acquistion of Campolo’s new book is big for me becuase I’m having a great deal of difficulty lately finding the community of believers who believe in actually pursuing peace rather than takling the word of the rest of the world in believing that we truly achiev peace through exacting the same means as that we Continue Reading
I credit Tony Campolo for sensitizing me to many of the social and political implications of the gospel. I was indeed very open to his message, having been exposed to Clarence Jordan previously, and having started Seminary at what was at that time a very prestigious school for presenting a sound and balanced and even diverse theological education (Southern Baptist Continue Reading
by Tony Camplolo and Brian McLaren I read a review of Adventures in Missing The Point by Brian Borger of Coalition for Christian Outreach The impression I got from the book is a variation on what Borger noticed: Interestingly, it is most often the controversial Campolo who calls McLaren to a more traditional, classic formulation of the matter at hand. Continue Reading
by Tony Camplolo and Brian McLaren I am reading it (i’m at page 190), and liking what I hear as my first exposures ( I think) to the perspectives of Brian McLaren. Tony Campolo I already know and love (see my web entry about him on my “List of Influential People” ) The book has an imprint of EmergentYS, the Continue Reading
A book that is widely blogged (see Allconsuming.net ) Emergence is one of those books that , like Cluetrain did for me about 2 and a half years ago, has me blogging about new observations — new for me, that is) Cluetrain was actually what got me into blogging. It got me pumped about the power of conversation, and led Continue Reading
Here is a list of some books I picked up yesterday (3 of them came in an Amazon shipment)
As I return to what I hope will be the finishing touches on a Website project, I willpost this entry about picking up WIRED: A Romance by Gary Wolf, upon its release to the bookstores yesterday. I opened up after Seinfeld was ending last night at 10:30pm, and have not had it down much since (except for sleep and a Continue Reading