Notes from Silicon Valley

I decided to read some additional novels by Jack Kerouac, after listening to a series of lectures about the beat poets from Naropa University, which have been posted at http://www.archive.org. I had not read “Big Sur” previously, and decided that it looked interesting. It is a study of a person going mad, as you read it [...]

Heard a reference to the “Project for a New American Century” and decided to investigate. These people are basically the mind trust of the current Bush administrations foreign policy and defense policy. Normally you could cry conspiracy theory about what they are currently doing, but that is not the case here; they published their ideas in [...]