On The Edge of Sanity

Viewing Earth from the perspective of a tiny fragile globe hurling through space humbles and inspires all at once - but makes flag waving and joining in difficult. And so from age 10 on things got difficult. I mean if you're paying attention, even just a little, how can you not be angry? But how also can you not be inspired and awed. And so I write. By Charlie Phillips

Thursday, March 13, 2014

Highly Functioning Sociopaths

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At the center of sociopathy is a lack of empathy for others. Or rather an inability to experience, to feel, for others. It is a necessary ...

Verizon and a weapon of mass financial destruction

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As you travel internationally data roaming on your smart phone can be expensive - very expensive. So you do what I do - turn it off. Here...
Friday, January 3, 2014

Win-Win

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Dear NSA Lets take your supercomputers, now used to surveil pretty much everyone on the planet - guilty or not - as if straight out of so...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

One Thing Right

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I said I thought he was a sociopath. They said, no, no - he's not smart enough. But must you be smart to be sociopathic? imagine wha...
Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Bodies in the Backwater

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You're poor, dirt poor.  You have no car. You have no credit card. You have no way to pay for a hotel even if you could find a way o...
Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Jimi Hendrix

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Looking down from my 3rd floor apartment window open onto winter night’s  A streetlight below, its shadows - cold, stark Wisps of snow danci...
Sunday, November 3, 2013

Snowden, Cheney and 'Intelligence'

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Lots of anger, conversation, and condemnation focused on Edward Snowden these days. Precious little on the NSA or our government. Snowden...
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