Posts under ‘Society’

Making Sense of a Senseless Economy

I have a few (relatively) harmless addictions.  One of them is National Public Radio.  This American Life is the type of program that get me excited about radio.  It makes it very easy to envision my grandparents and great-grandparents huddling around an antique radio, waiting in anticipation.   Back in May, I heard a very interesting [...]

I Consume.

“Look, we throw a lot of fancy words in front of these kids in order to attract them to going to school in the belief that their gonna have a better life, and we know that all were doing is breeding a whole new generation of buyers and sellers, BUYERS AND SELLERS! Pimps and whores, [...]

Graff Writing in NOLA…

I Just returned home from a road trip to Austin, TX that included a stop in New Orleans. The line between the “Haves” and “Have Nots” in N.O. is geographically thin and metaphysically thick.  Unfortunately, this has little to do with Katrina.  In the town I live, as well as many others in the country, [...]