“Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose.”                                           -Kris Kristofferson, “Me and Bobby McGee”            In Norman Jewison’s 1975 film, “Rollerball,” political governments around the world have been replaced by corporations.  Wars are a thing of the past, as are political campaigns, political corruption and political positions.  The world is highly sanitized with […]

            It’s time to start connecting some dots in the BP oil spill.  Now, over eight weeks since the explosion that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon well, facts are starting to surface (albeit not nearly as fast as the oil) that constitute evidence, admittedly some of it circumstantial, of significant deficiencies by both corporate and governmental […]

            The Deepwater Horizon blowout, as the BP oil spill disaster has come to be known, may well turn out to be some kind of an environmental Armageddon before its flow of oil runs its course, deep in the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.  Long before that point, however, even now, as a matter […]

            When I originally wrote this column, seven years ago, I was more in touch with the steady drumbeat of time than I was with the inevitability of death.  The two are, as I’ve since come to realize, much more closely linked than we may appreciate as we scurry along with the day-to-day business of […]