As each new day unfolds it seems the United States of America becomes more disunited, impatient and uncivil. What passes for entertainment, education and political discourse, particularly in the media, is rarely more than sensationalism and the exchange of insults and shouting. And with the exception of few good newspapers, magazines and websites, along with [...]
Entries Tagged as 'dissentdecree'
A Conspiracy of Ignorance
January 30th, 2010 · No Comments · Editorial, media, Politics and Social Issues
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Still Waiting for the Change We Can Believe In
January 15th, 2010 · No Comments · Editorial, Politics and Social Issues
I voted for a “change we can believe in,”—for President Obama and the Democrats. Today I am dismayed. Yes, we have gotten change, the change of spin and rhetoric. But corporate greed and the arrogance of the nation’s top bankers continue unabated while our social fabric and economic system shreds. In contemporary America, justice, ethics, [...]
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Drawing Conclusions
December 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Art, Design and Communication, Editorial, Images, media, Politics and Social Issues, Uncategorized
Recently I reread John Berger’s 1976 essay, The Primitive and the Professional in which he offers three sources of the primitive in art. The first is art made by artists working prior to Raphael. Second is the art derived from the “colonies,” that is, art from Africa, the Caribbean or the South Pacific. Finally there [...]
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Another September 11
September 19th, 2009 · 3 Comments · black and white photography, crime, Design and Communication, Editorial, media, Owosso, Politics and Social Issues
September 11, 2009 began much like that terrible morning eight years ago. I rode my bicycle along Lansing’s River Walk to my wife’s office. The sky was blue and the air crisp, just like it had been when the Twin Towers were struck. On that day I had not known the planes had crashed into [...]
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Photography, Politics and Image
September 7th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Art, Design and Communication, photography, Politics and Social Issues, Tony and Carmina
Carmina, Tony and Curran convene at the Bean It had been nearly 3 months since the city’s Combined Sewer Overflow project had come to the front of the Supreme Bean and for all this time pedestrian traffic was restricted to narrow paths on either side of the street. Patronage had suffered as a result and [...]
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