Category: Series of posts
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The Core is Getting Soft.9: Ring my Bell
For many years now, I have been using software in my meditation practice. In Buddhist meditation, we traditionally open and close each sitting by ringing a bell three times. One is instructed to follow the sound waves until they subside, providing a gradual transition in and out of the silent state of awareness. In today’s […]
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Corporate Welfare.7: Walton Welfare
Tens of thousands of protestors participated in some 1,500 strikes initiated by the organization OURWalmart against the largest private employer in the country yesterday, which of course was Black Friday, known as the “Super Bowl of Shopping” in this country. To mark the occasion, Amy Goodman interviewed Catherine Reutschlin, a policy analyst at Demos who […]
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The Core is Getting Soft.8: Couture on the Cheap
When you have friends with similar interests and desires as you, sometimes you have to be willing to experience the pangs of jealousy. I’m not just talking about romantic jealousy – for us musicians, it can be about the gear. When I was in grade school, there was a bright and talented kid a year […]
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Corporate Welfare.6: Pulling a Fast One
UC Berkeley’s Labor Center has published a new study on the role public subsidies play in the business model of fast food chains like McDonald’s, Burger King, and Wendy’s. Like the other corporations in this series of posts, it turns out that these firms surreptitiously pocket billions in public subsidies while preaching the doctrine of […]
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Top 40 over 40.14: Susan Te Kahurangi King
This series of posts is mostly about musicians who had growth spurts after 40, but today I’m posting about a visual artist I read about today thanks to Alastair Galbraith, whose records I very much admire. I consider his album Mass to be among the finest in our genre. Alastair posted a link to a […]
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Corporate Welfare.5: Pigskin welfare
Some corporations, like GE and Bank of America, have to resort to creative accounting to make it look like they lost money to avoid paying federal taxes. The National Football League is not one of them. A recent Change.org petition reads as follows: “Despite the fact that it is a $9Billion/Year industry, the National Football […]
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Corporate Welfare.4: Avoid Amazon
Salon.com published a piece today with the provocative title, “Amazon is worse than Walmart.” Their argument centers on the notion that Amazon’s business strategy for years has been to accept near-perennial losses on a quarterly and yearly basis in exchange for achieving a near monopoly size “market share.” Walmart, by contrast, actually makes a profit. […]
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