The next step for me in the discipline of Pied-Piper Philology is the exploration of what I call "Pathosophy" (on ana...
Twitter poetry is a form still in its infancy -- some may laugh at me for calling it something so grand as a form. But it's out there, happening, with both new and established poets composing 140-character verses and marking them with a variety of hashtags for public consumption. This...
While trying to read a somber op-ed piece about the upcoming election and what Americans like and don't like about capitalism and blah blah blah on the New York Times website this morning, I kept being distracted by flashy moving ad that took up the right side of the page. There were blocks...
A view of the great epic from a different perspective ...
Borders Books recently announced that it was going out of business. The company was founded by two brothers in the 1970s as an independent bookstore. Eventually, Borders opened stores across the country and became one of the largest nationwide bookstore chains. However, earlier this year...
A poem about dying ...
Reflections on the mystery of singing
It has become fashionable, following the deaths of famed actors, musicians, sports stars and other celebrities, to magnify their supposed uniqueness and insist that our lives are poorer for their absence, and their like never again will grace our now-further-impoverished mudball. That’s...
Major Media Content Experiment Ends
We will no longer be adding major media content, such as news from the Associated Press, alongside our Thinker content. This will result in the elimination of the "News" content type.
Going forward, we will focus exclusively on Thinker Blogs, Articles, Topics, and Ebooks. Visit our CEO's blog for the thinking behind this change. We want to thank the people of the Associated Press who were very supportive of our ideas and a pleasure to work with.
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