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the view from the couch: October 2011

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The view from the couch. Friday, October 7, 2011. Here’s the real deal: It’s not the 99% vs. the 1%; it’s the 99% against itself. Rioters, in any case, tend to burn down their own neighborhoods, even when riots occur. Economic injustice is on display, but in the preponderance of cases it is not the cause. In the states, it’s only the international organizations, the G8, etc., that inspire destruction by protestors, not just the USA’s economic inequalities alone. This has been going on for a long time, bu...

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the view from the couch: December 2011

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The view from the couch. Saturday, December 24, 2011. Saving Social Security, Not. It is actually called the federal Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance program. So, you may call them taxes, but they are premiums. Do you want to stop paying your fire, car, life insurance premiums? And now, we have the sad, smaller irony that the American workers are funding the Obama administration's tiny stimulus program, the lowering of the “payroll tax” (and for employers, too! More federal workers furloughed?

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the view from the couch: To Kill a "Second" Novel

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The view from the couch. Tuesday, July 28, 2015. To Kill a "Second" Novel. It’s clearly a first novel, a first book. And it was sent in 1957 to an editor who, though not wanting to buy it, suggested Lee write another book. A draft is an earlier version of the same novel, one eventually published. It may often have a different title. Authors are not always the best title-ers. They do. There’s a reason. But that didn’t happen to Harper Lee. In her case, her (unedited! Second novel, actually her first, is a...

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the view from the couch: March 2011

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The view from the couch. Wednesday, March 9, 2011. John Matthias: "Automystifstical Plaice", pt. 1. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Notre Dame faculty page. John Matthias: Automystifstical Plaice, pt. 1. View my complete profile. Simple template. Template images by luoman.

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the view from the couch: Contraception Wars and Woes

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The view from the couch. Friday, February 24, 2012. Contraception Wars and Woes. I share at least one attribute of the Catholic Bishops, now at war with the Obama administration: I don’t want to talk about contraception, either. Had the Obama administration announced their “compromise” first, rather than second, after a bit of clerical harrumphing, the issue may have left the public square and gone away. Indeed, more than half the states, as it’s been pointed out, already have simil...It’s not clea...

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the view from the couch: Oh, Rush, Poor Rush

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The view from the couch. Friday, March 9, 2012. Oh, Rush, Poor Rush. Rush Limbaugh, as far back as 1989, named his fans “dittoheads”, though he is the chief dittohead himself. I’ve been listening to Limbaugh since 1996, when he played a role in a book I was writing, Campaign America ‘96: The View From the Couch. A book on the Clinton-Dole presidential race. In favor of censorship (aka regulation) in a 5-4 decision. Sound familiar? 5-4 is the current far-right censoring vote on the Roberts Court. When I c...

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the view from the couch: Barney Rosset U.

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The view from the couch. Monday, March 5, 2012. Upon his recent death. I realized I had matriculated in the Barney Rosset School of Literature, or, more correctly (since I didn’t know who Barney Rosset was when I started), The Grove Press University of the Arts. I also went on to graduate school at New Directions U., founded by James Laughlin. I didn’t know him, either, back then, in my teens and early twenties. So, who did my generation get to read? That cost more than a dollar. Publishers played an uni...

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the view from the couch: Torture? What Torture?

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The view from the couch. Monday, January 12, 2015. What the Saudis may think of such acts I do not know, though they apparently continue to this day. No, what Americans think of when they think of torture usually involves chain saws, or sledge hammers, or the like. Walk though any of the mega-hardware stores of the modern period, as Hollywood producers often do looking for new ways to kill people in movies, and you can gather what constitutes torture to most of the population. It does seem that Americans...

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the view from the couch: July 2013

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The view from the couch. Friday, July 19, 2013. The Oak Ridge 3. I began my remarks saying that when I had written the new Afterword for the Harrisburg book I had never imagined that I would be reading parts of it aloud to Elizabeth McAlister. The Post is fly-fishing for a Pulitzer. At a panel after the premiere, the usual question was asked: why weren’t more young people out in the streets protesting? The one statistic that has changed in the wars we now fight is the average age of the dead. It has ...

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the view from the couch: November 2011

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The view from the couch. Friday, November 11, 2011. Keyes to the Caindom. He needed all sorts of help to get to Holy Cross and the same sort of help to get into Yale’s law school; and the help was there for his generation. But he’s repaid that help with great helpings of scorn and derision. And what has Thomas done of note during his twenty years on the Court, besides being the fifth vote majority for its conservative, right-wing decisions? Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Notre Dame faculty page.