January 2008 - Posts

• After Obama surge: don't forget Dennis

  Call them the establishment, the defenders of the status quo, the business community, whatever: in celebrating the withdrawal of Dennis Kucinich from the presidential race and denigrating his campaign of conscience, our betters are telling us to forget... Posted Jan 27 2008, 10:36 AM by The Rochester DISSIDENT: news, views, and poems from JACK BRADIGAN SPULA

• Support Arun Gandhi, a true man of peace - but don't withhold criticism of his words

  Readers probably have been following the flap about remarks made on a Washington Post blog (q.v.) by Arun Gandhi, head of the M.K. Gandhi Institute, now hosted by the University of Rochester . Amid widespread calls for Gandhi to resign because of his... Posted Jan 23 2008, 09:56 PM by The Rochester DISSIDENT: news, views, and poems from JACK BRADIGAN SPULA

• Travel mode

  I’ve just returned from Cyclotopia, formerly known as Ecotopia or the Pacific Northwest, and I’m brimming with thoughts about urban transportation. In cities like Seattle, which I explored for five days, and Portland, the locals take transportation... Posted Jan 08 2008, 10:23 PM by The Rochester DISSIDENT: news, views, and poems from JACK BRADIGAN SPULA