One month ago, on the night of Sunday, July 31st, I tweeted: Over a dozen people immediately responded or re-tweeted it. Amused by this response, I went to brush my teeth. I believe it was while brushing that the name “slowclapforcongress.com” floated into my head. Here, for archival purposes, is what happened next. Sunday night [...]
Category Archives: Politics
Ten Hopes
June 21, 2010 – 9:34 am
Wendell Berry speaking at a college commencement in 1989. Submitted without comment. Beware the justice of Nature. Understand that there can be no successful human economy apart from Nature or in defiance of Nature. Understand that no amount of education can overcome the innate limits of human intelligence and responsibility. We are not smart enough [...]
The Free Market is Not Enough
September 29, 2009 – 5:31 pm
I don’t usually whip out a blog post in a wave of rage, but I’m coasting on some serious fury right now and I reckon I’m going to channel it into some good old fashioned public ranting. Attention: my filter is officially off. Hello world! I’m pissed. Today a Senate panel rejected both proposals for [...]
Public Money and the Arts
September 13, 2009 – 9:49 am
99 seats asks: We’re not all a bunch of dirty hippies out here in the arts world. I know that. There are conservatives, libertarians, LaRouchites in the arts world. So, maybe, your political philosophy is that the government shouldn’t be involved in the arts. [...] The thing I hate the most about the conservatives in [...]
In which Chris says hello to the fine folks over at MetaFilter
March 31, 2009 – 3:08 pm
Yesterday I learned of a thing called MetaFilter. Someone in the MetaFilter community subsumed my recent blog posts into a MetaPost about theater economics. The ensuing conversation is great fun to read, although a little difficult to follow; coherency suffers in the age of aggregated essays. Clarity also suffers: “Is this sentence addressed to me? [...]