tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-56946752024-03-13T16:46:57.116-07:00All That Arises CeasesErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.comBlogger2944125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-24640252958512322062020-02-23T17:11:00.000-08:002020-02-23T17:11:39.542-08:00All in for Bernie letterI have emailed to the News-Press the following letter to the editor. I'll update this post when/if it's published.
To the editor:
What's the appropriate phrase? Biting the bullet? Going all
in? Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead? This election, I've decided to do all
three. I'm voting in the California primary and, hopefully, in the general
election, for Bernie Sanders.
Yes, I Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-34691901951197982172020-01-01T13:51:00.002-08:002020-01-05T20:31:47.551-08:00The Long Con letter to the editorI wrote this letter to the editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
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It was published on Sunday, January 5, 2020.
To the editor:
Remember the movie "The Sting," with Newman and
Redford, as "grifters," swindling their "mark," gangster
Doyle Lonnegan, out of a half million dollars? It wasn't a quick job: It was a
"long con," involving a hook, a Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-16889187095524769782019-10-15T16:16:00.001-07:002019-10-22T16:13:31.047-07:00Letter to the editor -- The elephant and the third rail
Herewith is a copy of a letter to the editor of the SB Independent that I emailed today, October 15, 2019. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
Update: The letter was published on the Independent's website on October 22, 2019, here: https://www.independent.com/2019/10/22/the-elephant-and-the-third-rail/
The elephant and the third rail
Kudos to the author of theErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-12921002673181067882019-04-03T16:43:00.003-07:002019-04-07T12:48:13.953-07:00Letter to the editorHerewith is a letter to the editor of the SB News-Press that I emailed today. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
Update: The letter was published in the News-Press on Sunday, April 7, 2019.
Pundits wonder why Donald Trump lies so frequently. Perhaps,
they suggest, he can't help himself – it's in his nature, a genetic trait or
something. Mysterious to pundits too is how forgiving Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-8260244151979291712018-12-02T10:28:00.000-08:002018-12-09T09:46:25.319-08:00Herewith is the text of a letter I sent to the editor of the SB News-Press today. I'll update this post when/if it gets published.
Update: The letter was published in the News-Press on Sunday, December 9, 2018.
At last, the "witch hunt" is getting interesting.
Straight out of a John le Carrė novel, we learn from the Special Counsel's
recent court filing that "cooperating" defendant Paul Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-60074639643890943212018-09-12T13:20:00.000-07:002018-09-12T13:20:11.056-07:00Herewith is the text of a letter I emailed today to the SB News-Press. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
It sounds crass, I know, but I'm grateful for Hurricane
Florence. It has, for a day or three, knocked stories about
Trump/Cohen/Manafort/Stormy/Mueller down from the lead to the second story on
front pages and telecasts. Wildfires occasionally did the job earlier this
year, but Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-15120020162721207352018-04-24T09:33:00.000-07:002018-04-29T11:37:02.149-07:00Letter to the editorHere's the text of an email I sent to the editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press today. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
Update: The letter was published in the News-Press on Sunday, April 29, 2018.
To the editor:
An unheralded benefit to middle-class wage-earners has been
found from recent studies of the effect of the Republican "tax cut"
legislation. The studies determined Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-25020609526050155042018-03-25T12:02:00.002-07:002018-03-25T12:02:30.447-07:00This says it all...An excellent essay by MATT Taibbi. Couldn't have written it better myself.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/taibbi-the-legacy-of-the-iraq-war-w518193Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-64499400828546573722017-12-27T16:54:00.000-08:002017-12-27T16:54:11.992-08:00Boxing DayHerewith is the text of a letter to the editor of the SB News-Press that I emailed today. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
Dear Sir or Madam:
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I wrote this on "Boxing Day," the day after
Christmas. You've doubtless heard of Boxing Day, but, perhaps like me, hadn't
known its derivation. Well, I've cyber-searched it: Consensus isErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-1297415237639556432017-09-22T08:06:00.001-07:002017-09-22T08:06:21.965-07:00Bernie's speech on foreign policy. Good stuff, and high time he addressed it. Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-38110505646231189922017-09-11T15:55:00.000-07:002017-09-17T08:44:10.985-07:00I note that it's been a year since my last post to this blog. I don't apologize: I've been in such despair that I have found any expression meaningless. However, I have today written another letter to the editor of the Santa Barbara News Press which, if it's published, I'll update this post with the specifics thereof. Herewith (Update: The post was published in the News Press on Sunday, SeptemberErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-12398222669030555612016-09-21T18:17:00.000-07:002016-10-10T11:33:38.738-07:00Letter to the editor re World Peace DayHerewith a letter to the editor of the SB News-Press that I sent today. I'll update this post when/if the letter is published.
Update: The letter was published in the News-Press on Sunday, October 2, 2016.
To the editor:
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You likely missed World Peace Day, Wednesday, September 21 –
understandable, since no major media source mentioned itErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-3947231077633856812016-06-26T10:57:00.000-07:002016-07-03T10:35:05.234-07:00Letter to the editorHerewith, after a long spell of silence on this blog, is the text of a letter I wrote to the editor of the SB News-Press today. I'll update this blog if/when it's published.
Update: The letter was published in the News-Press on Sunday, July3, 2016.
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Quo vadis, Bernie Babies?
The Brits' Brexit vote has shown that Americans aren't Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-16107044221093043832016-02-29T03:17:00.001-08:002016-02-29T03:17:26.627-08:00A Tragedy for Sweden and the worldThirty years ago yesterday, the assassination of Olof Palme changed Sweden, Europe and the world. For the story, read this. (The video is in Swedish, but the story, in English, tells enough to understand what was lost that day.)Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-13756785625201779032016-02-13T08:41:00.005-08:002016-02-13T08:41:58.325-08:00A great essay on voter ignoranceFollow this link to a fun and founded assessment of the American political system and its victims, the voters.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/13/american-politics-election-voters-suckersErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-25786281460455160872015-10-09T20:15:00.002-07:002015-10-09T20:15:25.264-07:00Why am I not surprisedby the result of this study?Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-58101508001821694802015-09-03T10:23:00.000-07:002015-09-03T10:29:52.127-07:00Letter to the editorHere's the text of a letter I emailed today to the SB News-Press. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
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Full disclosure: I'm on the Bernie Bandwagon, a member of
the Bernie Brigade – despite my advanced years, a Bernie Baby – and I'll tell
you why. Certainly my political stance aligns with that of Senator Sanders on
almost all Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-15131505468377223362015-09-01T11:16:00.002-07:002015-09-01T11:16:33.908-07:00An apt opinionIn view of the increasing number of incidents of police arresting those who might be engaged in protesting the arrest of another (or, as is lately common, filming the arrest), I'm reminded of an Arizona Court of Appeals opinion on the point, State v. Tages. I note that the attorney for appellant Betty Lou Tages was an illustrious and brilliant one, to be sure.Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-26407902529855184102015-07-04T08:38:00.000-07:002015-07-10T08:26:49.321-07:00Letter to the editor
Here's the text of a letter to the editor of the Santa Barbara News-Press that I emailed today. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
Update: The letter was published on July 10, 2015.
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From Bob Dylan to Dylann Roof. I'm surely not the first
person to note the similarity of these names, but I am among the Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-21175332400728467872015-02-23T16:56:00.004-08:002015-02-23T16:56:50.313-08:00I am the white cream-stuff inside the OreoWhy don't I know anything about this amazing artist/person, recently featured on PBS "American Masters"?Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-56653135777719119342015-02-22T11:06:00.000-08:002015-02-22T11:06:42.649-08:00Have you ever wondered ...Why during a solar eclipse the moon appears to be the same size as the sun, therefore blocking its precise surface area? Well, according to scientists it's a coincidence, just a coincidence, and only a coincidence for a while, because the moon is moving away from Earth an inch a year, so in a few million years the moon will appear smaller than the sun, not blocking it out entirely.
Really -- Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-7213888973837760052015-02-16T10:10:00.002-08:002015-02-16T10:10:51.116-08:00Read it and weep for humanityThis extended analysis of ISIS is more than disturbing: it's terrifying. Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-66796676237730131622015-02-08T17:00:00.000-08:002015-02-11T06:20:02.113-08:00Letter to the editorHere's the text of a letter to the editor of the SB News Press which I emailed today. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
Update: The letter was published on February 11, 2015.
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The European nations (Germany, France, Poland, Balkan
countries) most affected by the impact of the conflict between Ukraine and the
separatist forces Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-51119383794482529782015-02-08T15:54:00.001-08:002015-02-08T16:03:54.585-08:00ConsciousnessHere's a link to a comprehensible (although not comprehensive) discussion of the state of information on the concept of consciousness. For your early-evening consideration:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness
Enjoy.
Erikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5694675.post-25278294167835863752014-10-22T20:06:00.000-07:002014-10-22T20:06:51.680-07:00Letter to the editor<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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Here's a copy of a letter I emailed this date to the SB News-Press. I'll update this post if/when it's published.
The October 21 verdicts by a federal jury finding four
Blackwater "civilian contractors" guilty of homicide (three verdicts
of manslaughter, one of murder) for the 2007 killing of seventeen civilians in
Iraq will likely resultErikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14043860015232125483noreply@blogger.com0