Salty Current

So I'm watching Rachel Maddow and her piece on Kaci Hickox rebelliously riding a bike, and I'm thinking about Halloween tomorrow an...

Debarked You can't bark in a poem. Can't even howl, really. You can only “howl,” a purified cry rendered into tallow. So a p...

They have that underwater sound I love so.

It’s been a while since I recommended a pairing .* This one is actually a trebling (?), since it involves two books and a film. “24/7 is ...

This weekend I did the “Gardens by the Sea” walking tour in Stonington, Connecticut. It’s hosted by the Stonington Garden Club for only two...

One of the cats used to love playing with the old two-color soft balls. He would drop them down the stairs and chase them, carrying them ba...

My favorite artwork of 2014. Democracy Now! and others reported a couple of weeks ago on the work of Chilean artist, Papas Fritas (F...

Elliot Rodger’s killing spree and the video and manifesto he made explaining his motivations brought to mind not only Joan Smith’s work on ...

Peter Sutcliffe was always different, but not by a wide margin: the world is full of men who beat their wives, destroy their self-respect, t...

“The practice of science, like all human activity, depends upon categories, understandings, and conventions of practice that are, inevitably...

[A while ago, I ran across an interesting essay by the French anarchist-socialist Augustin Hamon , “On the Definition of Crime,” published ...

Years ago, a friend and I were discussing the phrases our families used to keep egotism in check. In mine, the favored expression was “Pin ...

"Where are the social workers?” asked social worker Jack Carney back in 2012 , Where are the NASW [National Association of Social Wor...

In my previous post , I described Erich Fromm’s notion of the necrophilous character , as both an individual and a cultural pathology. I no...

I’ve recently started following along with Adam Lee’s insightful and entertaining journey through Ayn Rand’s 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged . Re...