Serenity… refocus – seek joy – thrive

One puzzling question I’ve been seeing, reading various poliblogs, goes something like – where is the far Left in this country (U.S.)? My immediate thought – well, it’s right here, in many on and offline communities of color, in Labor, in some feminism, in some liberalism. In other words, pretty much where it’s always been [...]

I mentioned some time back that I was going to open up my “book writing and research” site but I don’t think I ever gave the address. Anyway it’s called The Book of Louis and while it’s still a bit scattered, it is open. I’ll pull it all together soon.

For some reason it feels incomplete – and almost rude – to make major (to me) decisions armed only with a Blackberry. Or, rather, to attempt to express the substance of them with an itty bitty keyboard and a 1 1/2 inch screen. Even so, I believe I have come to a point where one [...]

When Obama’s presidency was declared a failure by some on the leftish end of the spectrum – before he’d even been inaugurated – I decided I’d give him a year in office before I really started either critisizing or praising. This did two things… allowed President Obama to build up a record beyond that of [...]

Really, two. And I’ve just noticed that they both begin with “somewhere”. What they end with I don’t know, as I know few of the words to either. Anyway, one is the old standard “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”. That one I am more familiar with. The other, “Somewhere Beyond the Sea” I must have heard [...]