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Cloaked Common Tater Passes Off Hot Potato
“Anonymous” takes me to task in a comment to my earlier post of the 13-minute documentary on John McCain’s adventures with Charles Keating: I won’t argue about McCain’s issues, but why no comments about how the Clinton administration helped our wonderful crisis by pressuring fanny mae to lend more money? This problem isn’t just the fault of over-the-hill-out-of-touch republicans!! Although I have an aversion to answering comments from writers who check their personhood at the blog door, I felt compelled, to wit: Clinton was a virtual Republican.Read More
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KEATING ECONOMICS: John McCain & The Making of a Financial Crisis
And this is just a summary, really.Read More
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A Legacy of Lies…
I’ve been contemplating the many lies we’ve all been treated to by the McCain/Palin campaign. These continuing and obviously strategic lies remind me of the Nixon years, when the war in Vietnam was raging. In 1970, in response to Vietnam, Robert Bly wrote what is perhaps the greatest anti-war poem in the language, “The Teeth Mother Naked at Last,” and one of main threads in the poem is the culture of lies that surrounded and sustained that war.Read More
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Seeing Through the American Narrative
Linh Dinh has a terrific post on his own blog and over at Harriet on this grim anniversary. I responded to him with this comment: Linh, I’d like to add the books of Peter Dale Scott to those your post will encourage folks to read. His poetic trilogy Seculum, along with his journalistic works, especially The Road to 9/11 and The War Conspiracy, examine the deep politics behind our major post-WWII national tragedies (those we suffered and those we inflicted on others).Read More
Joseph Hutchison, Colorado Poet Laureate 2014-2019, has published 20 collections of poems and edited or co-edited three poetry anthologies. He currently directs two master’s-level programs for University College at the University of Denver: Professional Creative Writing and Arts & Culture Management. Joe lives with his wife, Melody Madonna, in the mountains southwest of Denver, Colorado, the city where he was born. 
