Ten years ago world leaders and world powers gathered in Montreal in ostensible hopes of hammering out an agreement to reduce emissions and reduce the harms of global warming. Little or nothing came out of the meetings, in part because of the adamant refusal to deal with the issue on the part of the Bush/Cheney administration. That same administrationContinue reading “Climate demonstrations: 2005 and 2015”
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John Lennon sends a postcard
A touching remembrance and review of a book of letters and postcards from John Lennon sends me out looking for a postcard by the much-loved writer and wit, and sure enough, right away: Here one is, complete with a fascinating story. Also notable this year: the debut of a John Lennon emoticon: ((ºjº))
Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon
Thirty-three years ago, long before John Lennon was shot and killed, the late great David Levine imagined what he would look at when he was sixty-four, or, today, when he would have been seventy. Something tells me that Lennon, quite a line artist himself, would have been a little tickled to see himself in theContinue reading “Happy 70th Birthday, John Lennon”
Kit Stolz 