Today is the day for celebrating the brave voyager to the new world...who cut off the hands of the indigenous Arawak tribes for not giving the Spanish enough gold.
Welcome to The Cahokian... A thousand years ago Cahokia — across the Mississippi from what is now St. Louis — was one of the biggest cities in the world. Now it's an empty green spot next to the highway. I'm a middle-aged gay man living in New York City, center of the world, future footnote on somebody's future map. Welcome to the new world.
Monday, October 12, 2009
Happy Columbus Day!
Today is the day for celebrating the brave voyager to the new world...who cut off the hands of the indigenous Arawak tribes for not giving the Spanish enough gold.
Friday, October 09, 2009
The Renewal of Hope...in the World!
Just a quick entry to note that Barack Obama has just been awarded 2009's Nobel Prize for Peace. The Nobel Committee said that the award was due for the President's renewal of the world's hope in the promise of diplomacy.
While the word is still out on what President Obama will be able to actually achieve--and it's fair to say what he wants to achieve is debatable--what an amazing affirmation from an esteemed world body of our repudiation, as a nation, of President's Bush.
Wake up, dinosaurs and troglodytes, the world is changing!
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