HELIOLITH

So now that I am a WiFi freeloader, I have undertaken the research project. I found a post on Broadband Reports that scoffed at a confused freeloader who wrote a NYT article about her experience getting “kicked off” (or so she thought). The snobs at BR say she just misunderstood the technology and received an […]

In mid-September 2001, NPR had a segment about a website called Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood. Specifically, the show was referring listeners to the WTC portion of the site, where a number of stories cluster. I looked up the url, discovered a brilliantly democratic and New York loving place to tell and read stories, share history, and […]

Since we’re on the topic, I thought I might add that the NYT had another interesting article about black suffrage (which I still can’t believe was only won as recently as 1965). The article links black disenfranchisement to felon disenfranchisement, citing two recent studies. Many states prevent felons from voting, even if they have completed […]

I gots to run, but I wanted to post a quickie and say that I’ve been avidly reading the paper, and listening to the public radio (and less so the Al Franken show), and I am appreciating being in the know. Have been closely following the convoluted story of those shifty documents that purported […]

Never in my wildest dreams did I think that the United States would be detonating nuclear shells to poison its own soldiers and the surrounding civilian populations with radioactive isotopes. -Helen Caldicott
Driving home from work today, I was listening to Beneath the Surface on KPFK (Pacifica) radio station (also available at 99.5 FM as WBAI […]

How many people think this guy is an aberration? How many think he’s the norm? That’s the scary thing; this isn’t news in the mainstream. Ok, so it made it onto the op-ed page of the New York Times.
More than 80 percent of the population of Detroit is black. This is very […]

This quote was to rich to pass over. I recently watched the Documentary entitled “Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch’s War on the Media” which was quite informative, and amazing. It was a little lost on me to some extent, since I don’t own a television, but nonetheless, place great importance on the media. The […]

If reading this short report on Znet about the cold, toxic, and cramped holding cage in NYC doesn’t get your ire, perhaps you think free speech is something mythical. KPFK’s Democracy Now has already carried the stories of how many protesters were rounded up in what are being called “pre-emptive arrests” a […]

I just finished the bit you wrote about Bush’s briefs. (And on that note, do we all agree that they are tighty whities?) For starters, I wish the Shrub would just say what he damn well thought. Why all of this “I don’t think that, but I am not willing to commit […]

I used to hang out at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe when I was a teenager. Specifically, you could find me sitting atop the overstuffed red wing chair in the balcony, perched over a poetry slam on my boyfriend’s lap, holding a can of beer in a paper bag that he’d smuggled in from the […]