by Charles Cameron | Sep 6, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — mind of a skeptic, heart of a devotee ] . I’m heading the post with this video to capture your attention, but recommend you move right past it to the body of the text, and return to it later if and when you have an hour and more to...
by zen | Jul 4, 2015 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen“] Martin Heidegger, Eric Hobsbawm and Ezra Pound A meandering post inspired by Reason Magazine and Charles Cameron. Reason.com is best known for giving a scrappy libertarian take on current events, crime, technology and pop...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 29, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — who was taught to think of “longer term” as extending to our children of the seventh generation ] . Here’s the problem: Nicole Kidman as analyst Dr Julia Kelly gets an order in DreamWorks SKG’s movie, The Peacemaker...
by Charles Cameron | Mar 19, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — this post is mostly concerned with unintended consequences in foreign policy, not Berndnaut Smilde‘s intended and dramatic clouds, but hey! ] . Nimbus Sankt Peter, 2014. Artist: Berndnaut Smilde ** Obama said in an interview on Vice...
by Charles Cameron | Jan 21, 2015 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — third of three, almost caught up ] . Schindler a few days back: I'll say it again: Kremlin's positioning itself as pro-Christianity & pro-Islam against the militant atheists & Islamists is potent stuff. — John...