The Utterly Amazing Future Awaiting High-Tech Humanity: An Interview With Dr. Michio Kaku, The Author Of “Physics Of The Future”

by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash If you're interested in the future, or if you're a sci-fi freak, or a geek, or a lover of science, or a transhumanist, or a singularity nut, or a fan of Bladerunner or 2001: A Space Odyssey, or all of these (like me), this book is for you. Author…

The Immensity Of Killing Bin Laden vs. The Banality Of Language

Let’s face it, my fellow Americans: the banality of GOP language has debased all political, cultural and religious discourse in the land, and though it can soar in a speech by Obama — at his best, he can fling banalities pretty close to a semblance of poetic truth — it more commonly paddles no higher than the remains of a dead frog rotting at the bottom of a cesspool choked by strontium-90-enriched pond scum.

Jobs, Jobs, Jobs — Why Nobody, Including Obama, Will Do A Damn Thing About Them (Plus Six Common-Sense Solutions)

For Obama to put CEO Immelt of GE in charge of an American jobs commission is a little like God putting Satan in charge of heaven. But then God doesn’t need Satan’s money to keep getting himself elected God.

The Six Emotions Of Revolution: What Egyptians Are Feeling Now

by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash If you really want to know what's been happening in Egypt, you have to know what folks there have been feeling for decades, and all the new feelings rippling through them now. Take a basic emotion: fear. Before a revolution can even get started, it has to face down…

The Spooky Silence Of Sarah Palin — Why, For Four Long Days After The Giffords Shooting, She STFU

by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash So some crazy young man (they're always men) shoots a Congresswoman pointblank through the head and sprays thirty more bullets from a gun clip he bought at Walmart, killing a 9-year-old girl and five others in Arizona, “the mecca for prejudice and bigotry” according to the sheriff of Tucson…

Obama The House Negro — Pity The Man Who Walks On His Knees (And The Nation He Leads From That Position)

by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash Just when you think Obama can't be more disappointing, he lets you down again. Yes, he can. The midterm elections have come and gone as blip-quick as the adult mayfly — which gets to live, fly, mate and die in 24 hours (there's some consolation: the males fly around…

What Obama Can Learn From Lady Gaga (And Progressives From The Tea Party)

by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash My name is Obama. But call me Icarus. I soared on the wings of an angel. I was the biggest star the planet had ever seen, without having to go near a guitar. I was dancing on the moon, when suddenly, the moon gathered its bowels and dropped me…

Are Our Writers As Lousy As Our Bankers?

by Evert Cilliers aka Adam Ash There is a certain kind of art made here in America for a lofty but banal purpose: to enliven the contemporary educated mind. You know: the mind of you and me, dear 3QD reader — the NPR listener, the New Yorker reader, the English major, the filmgoer who laps…

Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird — and at Obama

by Evert Cilliers (aka Adam Ash) and Wallace Stevens In 1917, Wallace Stevens, to my mind the best American poet of the 20th century (sorry, Sylvia Plath fans), published one of his most famous poems, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.” What with Barack Obama being our first black President, and also a leader…

The World Cup, My White Afrikaner Skin, My Fascist Parents, Mandela, Obama, And Forgiveness

by Evert Cilliers (aka Adam Ash) Five weeks ago I said to my brilliant girlfriend: “I'd like to see my father before he dies.” She said: “Congratulations.” She'd been asking me on and off for two years whether I'd like to go and visit him where he lives in Cape Town, South Africa, and my…

Government Isn’t The Problem, Private Enterprise Is: The Global Terrorism Of Al Qaeda, BP And Goldman Sachs

by Evert Cilliers (aka Adam Ash) Today there are three forms of terrorism threatening the world: political, financial and environmental terrorism. These three forms of terrorism are responsible for the destruction of human lives, livelihoods, property and the environment to a degree that rivals the ravages of war. All three forms are executed by global,…

Trying To Understand The Tea Party People: What White Folks Are Upset About Now (Prepare To Be Surprised)

By Evert Cilliers (aka Adam Ash) Tea Partiers: angry independents? extreme conservatives? regular Republicans? racist crackers? none of the above? Before I get down to telling you who and what the Tea Party movement is — because nobody seems to know, least of all the people IN the movement — allow me to lay a…

People Thought Obama Would Be Progressive Because He’s Black. Big Mistake. But He Could Still Be The Most Transformative President Since FDR

By Evert Cilliers (aka Adam Ash) Just because Martin Luther King and Jesse Jackson were trail-blazing agents of progressive passion who could stir red blood with a goodly speech, people took one look at Barack Obama and thought: here comes another one. Turns out he's a non-ideological pragmatist, and now progressives are disappointed. Madly, mightily,…

There Are Seven Big Bad Countries In The World — Is America The Worst Of Them?

by Evert Cilliers (aka Adam Ash) America, Britain, France, Germany, China, Japan and Israel all have one thing in common: they're the only countries on earth who think they're better than anyone else. America thinks its Constitution and economy and military make it better than anyone else. Britain thinks its Shakespeare and erstwhile empire and…