(CounterPunch, Feb. 1, 2007) The TV-B-Gone, which fits in the palm of the hand, is a universal remote whose sole purpose and power is to shut down televisions. During last year’s Super Bowl Sunda
Screenlandia and Mass Man
(CounterPunch, March 10, 2017) Every human in my immediate view is hunched over a screen. It is something out of a horror movie. You who have wandered in the backcountry and for even a few days hav
Mother Justice
(Vanity Fair, Nov. 2008) When her son was sentenced to 25 years for Brooklyn’s 2003 “grid kid” slaying, Doreen Quinn Giuliano was sure he’d been wrongfully convicted. To prove it, she went
The Fallacy of Endless Growth
My 2017 piece in Pacific Standard on the madness of unlimited economic growth on a tiny planet: https://psmag.com/magazine/fallacy-of-endless-growth
Buddhism in the Storm
(CounterPunch, March 27, 2017) The storm is coming. Out the door the winds rage. The weather service predicts two feet around my house in the mountains, and I’ve been stockpiling wood all day, an
New Information from Trump White House Insider
(CounterPunch, Sept. 10 2018) Last week a man I’ll call Guido Bartalucci, a former Trump White House insider, asked to meet with me at a bar in Queens to discuss his knowledge of the “Trump tra
Cooking Show Suicides and other Inanities
(CounterPunch, June 11, 2018) Recent information unearthed by CounterPunch’s crack investigative team has revealed that Anthony Bourdain killed himself in the wake of discovering he suffered from
The Future is the Car Free National Park!
How Washington’s short-sighted fealty to the automobile has ruined the great outdoors By Christopher Ketcham, for The New Republic April 10, 2018 Lately we’ve heard a lot from the bureaucrats a