Author: phronesis

Important, emotional stories on BooMan during the last few weeks and a diary about, in part, how we treat one another during our silicon based conversations, all led to this rather long diary.  Also in the mix leading to...

This is a tremendous article from The Nation that was on AlterNet last week.  It talks about the latest version of fascist cooperation between government and big corporations, or the electronic equivalent of what our...

Did you ever watch an American Idol audition where the poor guy singing was so bad that you just couldn’t look?  I get the same feeling every time Bush feels the necessity of warning the other kids on the block that...

This is a comment made by KnotIooking over at DailyKos to a diary by kos.  Kos was blasting Mark Kennedy who is a Republican running for the Minnesota Senate seat being vacated by Mark Dayton.  Amy Klobuchar is a...

I had to share this with my fellow frog hollow citizens.  I think it’s profound and thought provoking.   http://www.alternet.org/story/33236/ Robert Jensen writes about why he joined a church.  What struck...